Fedayeen

Word FEDAYEEN
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What do we mean by fedayeen?

An Arab guerrilla or commando.

A word used to describe the C.I.D(Criminal Investigation Department, the branch of all British Police and many other Commonwealth police forces to which plain clothes detectives belong) The word was taken from Saddams Hussains paramilitary organization which some consider to have been his elite force. Urban Dictionary

A US military term for diarrhea caused in part by the extreme heat of Iraq. Named in reference to the Fedayeen militia of the ousted Iraqi president. Urban Dictionary

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The word "fedayeen" in example sentences

First, he allowed Palestinians in Gaza to organize irregular guerrilla units called fedayeen—“self-sacrificers.” ❋ Kai Bird (2010)

Among them: the founders of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, or Army of the Pious, infamous for its suicidal infiltrations of Indian Army camps by heavily armed guerrillas (known as fedayeen) disguised in military uniforms. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Second, "What is missing from this account, however, is the fact that each of the persons who were shot was identified as a fedayeen (or terrorist, in Israel's current jargon) ...." ❋ Chomsky, Noam (1984)

Note that Margalit's "fact" that "each of the persons who were shot was identified as a fedayeen" is denied by the official Israeli account, as well as by the reports cited. ❋ Chomsky, Noam (1984)

During the 1960s, Palestinian resistance fighters were known as the fedayeen or those who sacrifice for a cause. ❋ Unknown (2009)

'fedayeen' - whose aim is to kill as many as possible and to hold out as long as possible, knowing they will probably be killed - are now regarded by terrorist commanders as effective a weapon as the suicide bomber. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All religious leaders have been talking of homosexuality as a disease , but nobody talks about the cancer of terrorism that they have created by their bigotry and narrow mindedness..the taliban, the fedayeen is a greater disease that kills without remorse and we spend a fortune to show that Justice prevails carrying bugger all for those that were gunned down by Kasab and his friends.. this is the travesty of justice , a system that is a terror in itself sending the wrong message home.. ❋ Photographerno1 (2009)

In the years following its rebirth in 1948, the small state of Israel faced regular deadly raids from marauding groups (called "fedayeen") -- sponsored by Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My father commanded these operations, carried out by "fedayeen," (which means, "self sacrifice"). ❋ Unknown (2008)

My father commanded these operations, carried out by "fedayeen," which means, "self sacrifice". ❋ GayandRight (2008)

The bill is intended to update the 1954 Infiltration Prevention Law, which was created to criminalize the actions of Palestinian "fedayeen" (freedom fighters) -- Arab refugees who attempted to re-enter Israel in order to reclaim the land they were removed from in 1948, when the state of Israel was established. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This latest assault, with all its obvious parallels with last November's Mumbai attacks, has completed the set - no major city in Pakistan is now beyond the reach of the Taliban and its al-Qaeda backers, and the emergence of Kashmir-style 'fedayeen' commando-style attacks has raised both the stakes and the fear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The group has routinely trained gunmen - called "fedayeen," or fighters who volunteer to sacrifice themselves in battle - to carry out operations in Kashmir and elsewhere in India. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"fedayeen" had sneaked in to play havoc with the country's security, the new no-non-sense home minister Mr Chidambram called a press conference on 2 April to dispel these unfounded claims. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I just remembered that Frank Herbert used the term “fedayeen” in Dune. ❋ Unknown (2009)

oh shit watch out theres fedayeen with those [pigs]. You see that guy wearing [the green] [t-shirt], his fedayeen. ❋ Lionis (2007)

[Pass] me a [pack] of baby-wipes, I got [a nasty] case of Fedayeen funk. ❋ BKred (2004)

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