No. Jaweed alone means 'rider'. 'Jan' adds the weapon to the peaceful picture, so 'Janjaweed' means verbatim armed rider which makes more sense than just 'rider'. Your omission is interesting, Carol.

Not so interesting, really. I just gave the definition I saw in several of the news articles I read about what's been going on there lately.

What is interesting (and a bit pathetic) is your need to try to make my repetition of what I read into something sinister.

Here is a Google search using the key words, Janjaweed and "men on horseback" (with the quotes). You can see numerous articles in which the term "Janjaweed" is translated as Arabic slang for "men on horseback". I do not speak Arabic, so I have to take the word of the people who say they know what it means.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=janjaweed+%22men+on+horseback%22&btnG=Google+Search