1) Modern street gang 
Baltagiya or Baltajiya (البلطجية) in Arabic also Baltaga or Baltaja (البلطجة) is an Egyptian word that originally means `hatchet men` but it generally means `goons` or `thugs` or `gangs,` who are often hired to attack regime targets. Nonpolitical baltagiya gangs appeared in Egypt in the 1980s; in the 1990s the Egyptian polic...