Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international airspace over the Mediterranean, provoking the sharpest exchange between Washington and Tripoli since Gaddafi came to power. In other spending aimed against Israel, Gaddafi gives at least $125 million a year to Egypt, about $45 million to Syria and perhaps $20 million to Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and other Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas. (Sudan has officially accused Gaddafi of instigating the kidnap-murder of three U.S. and Belgian diplomats in Khartoum last month...
...silent. So did King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, once a noted financial contributor to the Palestinians. He could hardly have been pleased that the attack took place in the Saudi embassy and that the Saudi ambassador was one of the five hostages. Even Yasser Arafat, the leader of Al-Fatah, the largest Palestinian nationalist group, made a point of trying (some what unconvincingly) to dissociate his organization from Black September...
...during their 60-hour occupation of the Saudi embassy was the release of 17 other Palestinian guerrillas who had been arrested in Jordan last month for plotting to overthrow Hussein's regime. Among these 17 was the man they openly called "our leader," Abu Daoud, one of Al-Fatah's highest-ranking leaders. Hussein adamantly resisted the guerrillas' demand, even though his own chargé d'affaires in Khartoum was the guerrillas' fifth hostage. Last week, when the shooting stopped, Hussein retaliated by ordering the execution of 16 of the prisoners, including Daoud. Other Arab...
Suspending all Palestinian activities in Sudan, Numeiry angrily asserted that Black September was indeed part of Al-Fatah. As proof, he charged the head of the Al-Fatah office in Khartoum with having masterminded the massacre. He said that the leader, Fawwaz Yassin, had left Khartoum for Tripoli on a Libyan airliner only hours before the attack on the Saudi embassy was launched. Detailed plans for the entire operation, in Yassin's handwriting, were later found in his desk. Sample: "Tareq -Issue instructions strictly and violently to all those inside the hall in a strong voice...Khaled-Control...
...actual attack seemed to have been led by Yassin's deputy, Abu Salem, who has also been a broadcaster on the Voice of Palestine, an Al-Fatah program on Sudanese radio. The other six guerrillas, carrying Jordanian passports, arrived in Khartoum on an Egyptian flight the day before the attack. Numeiry did not link the Egyptian government to the plot, but he implied that Libya, which had invited Yassin to Tripoli, might be connected...