Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keeps it from breaking asunder over such differences. With no potential successor having anywhere near his influence, Arafat's death would almost certainly bring disunity. Among those mentioned as possible heirs is Farouk Kaddoumi, the P.L.O.'s de facto foreign minister. Kaddoumi, one of the founders of the mainstream Fatah faction, considered a hard-liner, has international stature, but he is unpopular among many of his P.L.O. colleagues, in part because of his arrogant demeanor...
...with George Bush singing) are merely the beginning. Strauss and Newport steal songs from the thirties--"Forget Your Rubles, Come On Get Preppy," disco--"Keep Him Alive" (a prayer for the President), and even summer camp as a Palestinian delegate to the peace process sings "Hello, Mullah, hello Fatah, here I am at intifada...
Opposition to the Iraqis was extremely well organized in part because it was built around clandestine groups that existed before the occupation. In addition to Shi'ite Muslims opposed to the Emir, these include members of Arafat's Fatah guerrilla organization and Hamas, a more extreme Palestinian group that has been a key participant in the intifadeh in the Israeli-occupied areas. In addition, Ahmed Jibril's pro-Syrian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command has detonated car bombs at Iraqi targets in Kuwait City...
Many of the original founders of the P.L.O. began their careers and formed their revolutionary strategy in Kuwait in the late 1950s, including Yasser Arafat, who was a civil engineer in Kuwait's public-works ministry while organizing Fatah on the side. It was Kuwait that arranged the infamous meeting between the P.L.O.'s United Nations representative and U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young; Kuwait that refused the nomination of an American ambassador because he had previously served as consul in Jerusalem; Kuwait that broke diplomatic relations with West Germany in 1965, when Bonn recognized Israel; Kuwait that dutifully deducted a tithe...
Ordinarily, the freeing of hostages is cause for celebration. But when a Frenchwoman, her Belgian companion and their young daughter were released last week after being held for 2 1/2 years by Abu Nidal's Fatah-Revolutionary Council, a Libyan-backed militant organization, there were as many questions as cheers...