Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last fall, for instance, Moscow arranged several meetings of the P.L.O.'s main factions, leading directly to a reconciliation in April between P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization and two Damascus-based hard-line groups. The result was a more unified and radicalized P.L.O. in which the influence of two pro-Western countries, Egypt and Jordan, was diminished...
...overlooking the parking lot, hurled two hand grenades down on the soldiers and their families. Amid screams and shattering glass, the 46-year- old father of one soldier was killed, and 69 were injured. Five Palestinian organizations claimed responsibility for the attack, including P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat's Al Fatah...
...Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Briton, Ian Michael Davison, 29, was known to have fought in Arafat's P.L.O. force in Lebanon in 1982. So the most likely theory was that last week's hijackers, though they carried passports from Bahrain, were members of Arafat's Fatah organization. Others, however, believed that Renegade Palestinian Abu Nidal, implicated in several of last year's terrorist outrages, might have been responsible...
...timing of the aborted terrorist raid came as no surprise. Only three days before, Jordan's King Hussein abruptly closed 25 offices of Yasser Arafat's Al Fatah branch of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the capital city of Amman. The terrorist operation was a clear reminder of the P.L.O.'s determination to continue its struggle against Israel in spite of the stinging blow from Hussein. Said an Israeli official: "The P.L.O. wants to demonstrate that it's still powerful in the West Bank and that peace cannot be achieved without...
Hussein's crackdown caught Palestinian leaders unawares. Without warning, squads of the blue-uniformed Central Security Force spread through Amman shutting down Fatah offices, including the house in the Al Nuzha district that the Tunis-based Arafat used during visits. Jordanian agents seized Fatah documents and applied a seal of red wax to office doors. Arafat's top aide, Khalil Wazir, better known by his nom de guerre, Abu Jihad, was told to leave the country within 48 hours when he arrived at his office in the Jebel Amman district. Before embarking on a 450-mile auto journey across...