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1. al-Qa'ida
noun. a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries.
3. al-Haytham
noun. an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040).
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5. al-Aksa_Martyrs_Brigades
noun. a militant offshoot of al-Fatah that is the newest and strongest and best equipped faction active in the West Bank; responsible for many deadly attacks in Israel in 2002.
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6. al-Qur'an
noun. the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina.
7. al-Qaida
noun. a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries.
8. al-Jihad
noun. an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells.
9. AL
noun. a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War.
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- U.S.A.
- Gulf States
- Tuskegee
- America
- Tombigbee River
- Tombigbee
- Tallapoosa
- Confederacy
- Confederate States
- U.S.
- Selma
- Birmingham
- South
- United States of America
- Deep South
- Camellia State
- Coosa River
- Tuscaloosa
- Gadsden
- Pittsburgh of the South
- Confederate States of America
- Dixie
- Dixieland
- US
- Montgomery
- Tallapoosa River
- Decatur
- the States
- Alabama River
- Coosa
- Mobile
- Mobile River
- Huntsville
- Mobile Bay
- USA
- capital of Alabama
- Alabama
- United States
