NOUN
- a radical Islamic group of terrorists in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan who oppose an independent secular nation as advocated by the United States; some members fought with the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan; said to receive financial support from Saddam Hussein
How To Use Ansar al-Islam In A Sentence
- In 2002, the Bush administration had what it believed to be reliable intelligence that Ansar al-Islam, a Kurdish Sunni extremist group, was producing chemical weapons at Khurmal in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. Wonk Room » In 2002, Bush Neglected Actual WMD Threat In Order Not To ‘Derail’ Iraq War
