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Fedayeen

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fe·da·yee  (f-däy, -dä, -d-)
n. pl. fe·da·yeen (-yn, -n)
A commando or guerrilla, especially an Arab commando operating in the Middle East.
[Arabic fid', one who sacrifices himself, from fid', sacrifice, ransom, from fad, to sacrifice, ransom; see pdy in Semitic roots.]
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Noun1.fedayeen - (plural) Arab guerrillas who operate mainly against Israel
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
paramilitary, paramilitary force, paramilitary organisation, paramilitary organization, paramilitary unit - a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops)
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Fedayeen
pl → Freischärler pl


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Although this sanitized definition makes sense to well-meaning diplomatic negotiators it does not apply to blood-lust individuals seeing themselves as freedom fighters, liberators, revolutionaries, rebels, Jihadi, Mujaheddin (strugglers) or Fedayeen (soldiers of martyrdom).
A new forensic picture polygraph technique for terrorist and crime ... by Gold, Karen L. / Journal of Instructional Psychology
The novel is overrun with a goofy cast of knife-fighting fedayeen and white-bearded Islamists with names like Mullah Oxley and "The Old One.
It can't happen here: the fantasy worlds of War on Terror novels by Weigel, David / Reason
There was the Muslim Brotherhood (an Egyptian terrorist group and the intellectual incubator for what would become Al Qaeda in the 1980s); there were fedayeen ("self-sacrificers"), who were more loosely organized.
The forgotten: Lieutenant General E.L.M. "Tommy" Burns and UN ... by Maloney Sean M. / The Canadian Army Journal
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