Word: fatah
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...quit Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization in 1973, contending that Arafat had softened his opposition to Israel. Abu Nidal, in turn, was condemned to death by the P.L.O. Interviewed by Arab reporters recently in Libya, where he reportedly established a headquarters a few months ago for his Fatah Revolutionary Council, Abu Nidal has also been a frequent visitor to Iraq and Syria...
...police investigations continued in Italy and Austria, a consensus quickly emerged about the identity of the seven known terrorists, only three of whom survived the airport attacks. The men were apparently agents of Abu Nidal and his Fatah Revolutionary Council, which split in 1974 from Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah organization and in recent years has spent about as much time and energy trying to kill P.L.O. leaders and other Arabs as it has devoted to fighting Israel...
...works speak for themselves. Over the past twelve years Abu Nidal has molded his organization, known as the Fatah Revolutionary Council, into a fanatical, amorphously structured terrorist band with between 200 and 500 adherents. They have been blamed for more than 100 terrorist attacks. In June 1982, members of Abu Nidal's group shot and gravely wounded Israeli Ambassador to Britain Shlomo Argov, an assault that helped spark the Israeli invasion of Lebanon...
...names were from the 1.2 million Palestinian community in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Of the seven Palestinians on the list, five are members of the Palestine National Council, the P.L.O.'s de facto parliament. At least two of these are also members of Al Fatah, the largest group within the P.L.O. Even though the three other Palestinians were not directly connected with the P.L.O., Peres described the list as "a bad opening move...
...presidential election, but they look set to compete in the summer?s legislative poll - and their showing in local elections suggests the Islamists will do very well. Come the Fall, Abbas may well find himself answerable to a legislature in which representatives of the more militant grassroots of Fatah, together with those of Hamas, are a lot more influential than old-guard moderates like himself...