North Atlantic Terrorist Organization

English

Etymology

A backronym of NATO, substituting the T word to affirm a negative point, implying that the organization is inherently belligerent.

Proper noun

North Atlantic Terrorist Organization

1. (geopolitics, derogatory) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
   • 1970 December 8, James Eayrs, “Morality and Violence: The Insane Strategy of Peace Through “Megamurder””, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, year 45, number 7, Kingston, Ont., page six:

     Canada is a member of a megamurder club, a North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.

   • 1999 March 29, Milutin Tamasijevic, “South Florida Serbs unite in fear, frustration, anger”, in The Miami Herald, 97th year, number 196, page 1B:

     They are the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.

   • 2000, Lawrence Grossman, David Singer, editors, American Jewish Year Book 2000, →ISBN, page 163:

     The arsonists left notes at two of the sites, one of which denounced the “North Atlantic Terrorist Organization” and asserted that “the fake Albanian refugee crisis was manufactured by the International Jewsmedia to justify the terrorizing, the bestial bombing of our Yugoslavia back into the dark ages.”