Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsmen to pointedly announce that "a blond, freckled man dressed in khaki, who did not appear to be a Palestinian," had been seen fleeing from the mosque just before the fire. That was all the information that Arab propagandists needed. Cairo Radio called the fire a "premeditated crime." Al-Fatah, the Palestinian Arab commando organization, demanded shrilly in its broadcasts: "Moslems, what are you waiting for? The Zionists are burning down your sacred shrines. How can you face the Prophet Mohammed?" Jordan's King Hussein, whose grandfather King Abdullah was assassinated by a Palestinian Arab gunman in front...
...Israelis maintained that the fire was accidental. A welding torch was found beneath the roof, where work men had been repairing old timbers treated with inflammable linseed oil. Some angry Israelis suggested that, just as the Nazis had burned down the Reichstag and blamed it on the Communists, Al-Fatah terrorists had set fire to the shrine so that the Israelis could be blamed and emotions aroused throughout the Arab world...
Meeting in Moscow. An agreement reached last week between two major factions of the fedayeen movement provided further evidence of Arab determination. Leaders of Al-Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) met in Amman for three days of almost nonstop meetings. They were concerned about a Cabinet reshuffle in Jordan that put anti-commando men into key positions and embarrassed by an unseemly squabble over credit for a successful raid three weeks ago. Other commando chieftains also joined the talks, and the upshot was a pledge of increased coordination. Just how long the agreement will...
...after the pact was announced, Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat received a packet rigged to explode when opened. It was hardly a brotherly act, and Fatah was quick to blame Israeli agents. There was some suspicion, however, that rival Arab commandos might have been the guilty senders...
...Arab press raged, but Arafat himself was silent, apparently not wanting to show more concern for his own house than for other Arab homes blown up by the Israelis because their occupants collaborated with Al-Fatah. But on the following Sabbath eve, three bombs exploded in a side street 300 yards from the Wailing Wall, wounding three Arab civilians and an Israeli soldier...