Word: asifa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asifa's storm troopers have little in common with the illiterate and ill-equipped irregulars who used to sneak into Israel. Roughly half of them are college graduates or students, and all are rotated regularly in and out their civilian jobs, a practice that makes guerrilla fight ing more attractive and assures Asifa penetration into all levels of civilian life. They undergo formal guerrilla train mg at bases such as the Karamah refugee camp, which was the mam target of last week's Israeli assault. To main tain a semblance of secrecy, Asifa is organized into c. like...
...secrecy is not entirely effective. Somehow, Israeli intelligence gets wind of Asifa operations with such regularity that up till now some 80% of all infiltrators have been killed or captured. The ones who do get through, however, do enough damage to keep Israeli life thoroughly on edge-such as last week's bombing of ; busload of children and even attacks on coastal Tel Aviv. It is an open secret that Asifa has marked Defense Minister Moshe Dayan for assassination and has sent a top agent into Israel to do the job. And, if the organization's leaders...
...Arabia, which will soon get its independence from Britain. The violence is being fueled by a sudden proliferation of terrorist organizations that seem as ready to fire on rivals as on the hated Jews. There are now no fewer than eleven separate Arab terrorist organizations, including the 550-man Asifa (Storm Troopers) operating out of Syria, the 8,000-man Palestine Liberation Organization, and antiroyalist groups in Saudi Arabia and Muscat...
Israel's mood may well be indicated by what it does about the condemned Asifa prisoner Hejazi. Under the law, an appeal for clemency to President Zalman Shazar is mandatory. Nine years ago, three Arab saboteurs were sentenced to death, but the penalty was commuted to life imprisonment. In fact, the only man ever hanged in Israel was Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann. Last week Israel's dilemma was whether or not to make Mahmud Hejazi the second...
...making its raids into Israeli territory, Asifa is aided by an underground group among Israel's own 250,000 Palestinian Arabs called El Ard (the Land). Members of El Ard act as guides for Asifa raiders, supply military intelligence and provide hideouts. Though few in numbers, Asifa could succeed in plunging the Arab world into a probably disastrous war with Israel. The former Israeli military commander, General Moshe Dayan, is one of those urging his nation to launch a preventive attack while the Arab states are torn by dissension and 50,000 Egyptian troops tied down in the Yemen...