GIA
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GIA
- In the 1990s, the GIA carried out numerous attacks to impose its radical ideology on Algeria.
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The GIA is known for its extremist beliefs and violent tactics aimed at destabilizing the Algerian government.
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The GIA was responsible for a series of brutal assaults against civilians during its campaign for an Islamic state.
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A giant came in here and woke me up.
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I'm gonna catch you a giant fish... with my bare hands.
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A giant bowl of it counts as dinner more evenings than I dare admit.
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A wild, giant snake—the bigger the better.
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GIANTmicrobes' ability to make plush and vinyl versions of, well, giant microbes has always amused me.
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They have an advertising advantage (a giant sign that says ROSES) and those patterned plastic things surrounding the flowers that will make your sweetheart think you ordered them two weeks in advance from teleflora.com!
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" Chinstrap penguins, king penguins, giant petrels, and stormy petrels—you name it, it was there.
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Synonyms
An armed group in Algeria that used violence in the 1990s to try to create an Islamic state
A group of Islamic extremists in Algeria that uses violent attacks to try to make an Islamic state
Surface Forms
Morphology
GIA = Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (opaque) = G + I + A
This is an initialism formed from the initials of the full name; the letters themselves do not function as meaningful English morphemes.
Etymology
GIA comes from the French name Groupe Islamique Armé, which means 'armed Islamic group', so the initials GIA show it was a group that used weapons to try to change Algeria's government.