I know the translation, just asking if anyone else does because a lot of people refer to it without knowing what it means.
2006-10-26 11:59:32 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The literal translation is "The base."
However, it is also the name of a terrorist organization.
2006-10-26 12:02:11 · answer #1 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Base
2006-10-26 19:01:58 · answer #2 · answered by Jim P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In formal Arabic it means The Base or Foundation. In Arabic slang it can be translated as sh*t house or something along those lines.
2006-10-27 14:15:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The base which was the name of the terrorist training camp set up at Peshawar by Osama bin Laden when he was working with the C.I.A. and the Saudis to fight the russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s
2006-10-27 02:11:50 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could means the base or the law. I learned a lot from Wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda
One thing that intrigues me is that Al Queda is the law and the Talibans are the students. Then does it means that the Talibans are the practitioners of the Talibans?
2006-10-26 19:03:27 · answer #5 · answered by steve 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Base as in the base of operations
2006-10-26 19:02:15 · answer #6 · answered by my_iq_135 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means 'The Database', a name created by the CIA as a collective term for their files of suspected Islamic terrorists.
2006-10-26 19:20:44 · answer #7 · answered by Clive 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Manifestly you do not know the translation, otherwise you would know that it is "al Qaida", which means "the Law" or "the Foundation".
2006-10-26 19:07:22 · answer #8 · answered by rich k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chicken?
2006-10-26 21:16:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surely its just the name of the orginisation so it just translates as the same word.
2006-10-26 19:03:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋