Word: fatah
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...Some 50 people were killed Sunday in a series of intense gun battles fought in the streets of Tripoli itself and nine miles north of the city in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, which is also headquarters of the Fatah al-Islam faction. The violence spread to Beirut late Sunday when a 22-pound bomb exploded in a car park in the Ashrafieh district of east Beirut, killing one woman and wounding 12 others...
...Fatah al-Islam has dominated security news in Lebanon since it first declared its existence late last year. The Sunni extremist group said it had split from Fatah al-Intifada, a pro-Syrian Palestinian faction which is headquartered in Damascus, and that its goal is to fight for the Palestinian cause. But divining the real identity of Fatah al-Islam has become mired in Lebanon's political crisis and the answer to what the group's real agenda is depends on whom you ask. The anti-Syrian March 14 coalition, which forms the backbone of the Lebanese government, believes that...
...Lebanese authorities have accused the group of a twin minibus bombing in the Christian town of Ain Alaq in February in which three people were killed. They also believe Fatah al-Islam members carried out at least three bank robberies, the latest on Saturday when $120,000 was stolen from a bank in the coastal town of Amioun south of Tripoli...
GAZA CITY Fatah-Hamas truce collapses...
...government doesn't appear to have an answer. Since Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005, the territory has teetered on the brink of civil war between Palestinian factions. Fatah, which oversaw the creation of the Palestinian Authority in negotiation with Israel and the United States, lost its monopoly on power when Hamas decided to contest the January 2006 elections and won a dramatic victory - one which neither Washington, alarmed by Hamas's hostility to Israel's very existence, nor many of the Fatah activists whose power of patronage required holding onto the machinery of government, were prepared to accept. After...