Word: fatah
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...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...
...foreign journalists, who were allowed out only for chaperoned tours. Accompanied by "minders" from the Libyan Ministry of Information, reporters visited a residential area, a hospital and a morgue. On Tuesday evening a group of handpicked correspondents, mostly women, were driven to the children's hospital at Al Fatah University and shown two young boys, who were identified as sons of Colonel Gaddafi's. Both were lying under oxygen tents, strapped to their hospital beds. On one outing, a Libyan militiaman held a plastic bag and plucked from it a child's charred foot that had been severed...
...later delivered to Beirut newspapers. Qassam was slain by the British during a revolt in Palestine in 1936. His name has frequently been used by terrorist factions linked to Abu Nidal, whose real name is Sabry Khalil Bana and who officially broke away from Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah organization...
...incursion. But for many Israelis, the wounded at Qiryat Shemona dramatically underscored the continued vulnerability of the northern border region. Just 90 minutes after the attack, Israeli fighter planes bombed two buildings near Palestinian refugee camps outside the port city of Sidon that were reputed to be headquarters for Fatah, the P.L.O. guerrilla faction. At least ten people were killed and 25 were wounded...
...notorious Abu Nidal group was "probably" responsible for the killing. Both Syrian-backed, anti-Arafat groups accused al Masri of being an Israeli collaborator, and Abu Nidal also called the assassination "a warning" to Arafat and Hussein. Some Israeli sources, however, did not rule out Arafat's own Fatah organization as the culprit. Had the mainstream P.L.O. wanted to hit back at Hussein, Mayor al Masri would have been a logical target. Not only had his appointment received Jordan's tacit approval, but his family is part of the Jordanian Establishment. His elder brother Hikmat is deputy speaker...