| Engelsk navneord: dirty war | 
| 1. | dirty war (om handling) an offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims | 
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 | Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s. 
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 | Mindre specifikke termer | offence, offense, offensive | 
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 | Overordnet emneområde | act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act | 
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