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...scheduled to depart in six weeks). Hamas wants to build low-income housing on the land to bolster popular support in advance of parliamentary elections set for January. Its leaders are casting Hamas as a national, rather than a purely Islamic, party that can beat Abbas' corrupt and unpopular Fatah party at the polls. If Abbas doesn't give Hamas some land--and his aides say the settlement territory will indeed be held by the government--Hamas says it will take what it wants by force...
...West Bank company administer the hothouses. And these aren't the only examples of intra-Palestinian tensions. Top Palestinian security officials say there is a dispute between different branches of the military over who will guard the empty settlements. To complicate matters, when a Gaza leader from the ruling Fatah Party last week declared that he had set up a "popular army" to guard the evacuated settlements, government officials viewed that as a veiled threat to take over the settlements unless his group got some cash. In the end, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will probably have...
Sometime after the 1967 Six-Day War, Abu Nidal joined Yasser Arafat's Fatah arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He rose quickly through the ranks and in 1970 opened a P.L.O. office in Khartoum. About a year later he was asked to leave by the Sudanese, largely because of his efforts to recruit local Palestinian students as guerrilla fighters...
...Nidal was named the chief P.L.O. representative in Iraq. Over the next two years he started to set up his own organization, and by September 1973 it had begun to emerge as a proxy terrorist force for the Iraqis. A formal break with Arafat's Fatah organization took place in 1974, and shortly thereafter his gunmen failed in a bid to murder Arafat himself. In reply, the P.L.O. sentenced Abu Nidal to death...
Even though there is evidence that Abu Nidal's headquarters is now in Libya and that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is picking up the estimated $14 million annual tab for Abu Nidal's organization, some Western intelligence agencies note that the Fatah Revolutionary Council retains an office in Damascus as well as a training camp in Lebanon's Syrian-dominated Bekaa Valley...