Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still unresolved was the question of where the P.L.O. leadership would go if it did leave Beirut. Several Arab states, including Egypt, Syria, Jordan and even Saudi Arabia, have expressed some willingness to admit the Fatah leaders, but only Egypt has made an offer. The U.S. believed that any of these states would be sure that the P.L.O. did not regain its former military power...
...were made on such nonmilitary areas as Family Beach, a popular stretch of sand and surf just south of the beleaguered capital. Israel's planes hammered hard at Beirut's Sports City, a former stadium that is now a storage depot for food and supplies for Al Fatah, a commando group of the P.L.O. Two floors of the structure collapsed under fire, burying guerrillas and their families in a broken mass of reinforced concrete...
...Arafat has told his restless officers that if they let the Israelis attack and are able to hold out for ten days, the P.L.O. would get so much international support that it would have embassies in London and Paris within a month. Although some of the officers in his Fatah organization believe the P.L.O. should act immediately to support the continuing unrest in the West Bank and Gaza, Arafat seemed determined to hold out against those who were pressing for action...
...main target of the Israeli planes had been the Palestine Liberation Organization's several commando offices in West Beirut. The command centers of two important components of the P.L.O., Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, escaped virtually unscathed, although the headquarters of two smaller groups, the P.F.L.P.-General Command and the Syrian-dominated Saiqa, were partly destroyed. The most serious damage took place in densely crowded areas like the Fakhani district behind the Fatah center, where half a dozen large office and apartment buildings collapsed. Israeli officials said the object of the attack...
...equipment into Lebanon to aid the Palestinians. According to sources in Beirut, between 400 and 500 Libyan officers -not troops-have arrived in Lebanon over the past two weeks to act as advisers. The Libyans were sent in to instruct Pal estine Liberation Organization commandos of every group except Fatah, the largest, and some left-wing militia groups, in the use of artillery, rocket launchers and other military equipment that Libya has recently funneled through Syria. At a rally in Beirut late last week, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O., said that since 1972 there had been Libyan troops among...