Word: fatah
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...most wanted man, accused of killing or wounding nearly 1,000 people, most of them innocent people, in attacks around the world over the past 15 years. But last week there were reports that this ferocious dealer of death and destruction, Abu Nidal, 52, head of the Libyan-based Fatah Revolutionary Council, is ill and possibly dying in a hospital in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, his illness variously reported to be cancer and heart disease. Declared a Cairo-based official of the Palestine Liberation Organization, from which the terrorist leader broke away in 1973: "Abu Nidal...
...engaged in the delicate process of urging Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate a peaceful settlement concerning the occupation of the West Bank. Such action would also play directly into the hands of Israeli hard-liners. On Friday P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat opened a congress in Tunis of Al Fatah, the P.L.O.'s chief guerrilla group, the first such meeting since 1980. The discussions may prove critical because Arafat's public declarations calling for negotiations with Israel have brought him under increasing pressure from more extreme elements in the P.L.O...
...grandson of a Shi'ite mullah, Mughniyah trained with Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. A high school dropout, he excelled at terrorism; his boldness and quick grasp of explosives and weaponry impressed his commanders. But he fell out with Fatah leaders and in 1982, when Israeli troops invaded Lebanon and occupied his village, Teir Debbe, Mughniyah joined the newly formed and more radical Hizballah (Party of God). He took to wearing religious garb even as he recruited activists and professionals to the Shi'ite cause. He rose quickly to the top of the organization...
Another suspect is Abu Nidal, the fanatic P.L.O. terrorist whose Fatah Revolutionary Council allegedly carried out the 1985 Christmas massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports. He too would like to scuttle Arafat's Middle East peace moves. "Such an act of terrorism by Abu Nidal would be a message to the U.S. and a slap in the face for Yasser Arafat," said Ian Geldard, director of research at London's Institute for the Study of Terrorism. Allied with Libya, Abu Nidal would presumably have access to Muammar Gaddafi's ample supply of Semtex, a plastic explosive made in Czechoslovakia...
After being held hostage for 13 months by Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council, Virginie Betille, 6, and her sister Marie-Laure, 7, were freed last week. The French girls, their mother and five members of a Belgian family had been captured while sailing off the coast of Gaza. Abu Nidal charged that the two families were Israeli spies, which they deny. The girls were delivered into French custody in Benghazi, Libya, but the others remained in captivity...