Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first group drove a scant mile to Rue Khaled Ben al Walid. Two apartment buildings halfway along the short street housed the Palestinian leaders marked for assassination: Al-Fatah Deputy Leader Abu Yusuf, Intelligence Expert Kamal Adwan and Palestinian Spokesman Kamal Nasser. All three had attended a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization during the evening...
Last week Abu Yusuf himself was killed, the highest-ranking victim of the Israeli raids against Palestinians in Lebanon. A founder of Al-Fatah, the most important of the five major groups within the Palestine Liberation Organization, Abu Yusuf was the top deputy of Fatah Chief Yasser Arafat and was the only Fatah member on the P.L.O.'s executive committee. A onetime lawyer, Abu Yusuf acted as a kind of Foreign Minister for the P.L.O., representing it skillfully in negotiations with Arab governments. The Israelis regarded him as also a leader of the shadowy Palestinian terrorist group, Black September...
Kamal Adwan, 38, was the youngest of the three P.L.O. officials assassinated by the Israelis. A former petroleum engineer who had worked with Arafat on the Persian Gulf, he was also influential in Fatah affairs, though he shunned publicity. He established one of the original Palestinian resistance cells and, at his death, was responsible for P.L.O. intelligence in Israeli-occupied territories. To the Israelis, this meant that he was in charge of terrorist acts within these areas...
...victim, was mourned by Palestinians last week as the "revolutionary butterfly." He was a colorful and esteemed poet and the official spokesman for the entire P.L.O. A Christian, he did not seem tied to any one group within the organization, though the Israelis regarded him as a representative of Fatah and thus, in their view, of Black September. Nasser always refused to carry a gun, despite warnings that his life might be in danger. A graduate in political science from the American University of Beirut and a former member of the Jordanian Parliament, he was perhaps the Palestinians' most...
Gill said she had tried "for ages" to collect her money from the CIA. She said she contacted the Agency regularly to give them "foreign stuff, stuff that would dribble in about groups like the Committee on Latin American Solidarity and Al Fatah...