Word: fathi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cold War flick inspired Israeli intelligence agents to hypnotize a young Arab prisoner into attempting to assassinate Yasser Arafat nearly 30 years ago. The plot, allegedly the brainchild of Major Benjamin Shalit, chief psychologist in the Israeli navy, seems too ridiculous for words -- the 28-year old Palestinian, codename "Fathi," was supposedly brainwashed and dispatched over the border with an exploding two-way radio. He passed it on to Arafat, but the booby trap failed to go off because of a "technical fault," according to Ha'aretz...
...members fired guns into the air in celebration. Mohammed Zahhar, a leader of Hamas, told an Associated Press reporter in Gaza: "He practiced all forms of violence against us. I'm joyful because he was punished." Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, the new leader of Islamic Jihad who succeeded assassinated leader Fathi Shiqaqi, told Reuters in Damascus, Syria: "I am not sorry for the killing of Rabin who is the world's number one terrorist. What if the world lost one of the criminals and killers? It is the blessing of the martyr leader Fathi Shiqaqi's blood...
...morning when suicide bombers targeted a bus carrying a group of Israeli babysitters. None of the Israelis was killed, but 11 were injured and the two terrorists died when their bomb-laden cars exploded. Islamic Jihad had said it would seek revenge for the slaying of its leader, Dr. Fathi Shakaki. TIME's Johanna McGeary reports from Jerusalem: "The reason that no Israelis were killed is that the Israeli soldiers who were accompanying the bus noticed the first bomber's car and were able to prevent it from getting too close to the bus. These attempts shouldn't disrupt...
Israel expelled several thousand Palestinian workers to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip today and tightened travel restrictions on Palestinians, in an attempt to prevent revenge terrorist attacks after last week's assassination of Fathi Shakaki, the leader of the Islamic Jihad. "The fact that the Israelis are adopting such tough measures indicates that there is extremely serious concern of a terrorist response on Israel," reports TIME's Jamil Hamad from the West Bank. "I fear, however, that the Israelis are underestimating the effect of the restrictions themselves on Palestinians. These measures may do more harm than good: they...
Governmental appointments have been based largely on political loyalty rather than credentials. Arafat's brother-in-law is one of the new members of the Palestinian Higher Education Council. Some health-care professionals are outraged that Fathi, the head of the Palestine Red Crescent and the chairman's younger brother (and spitting image, sans beard and kaffiyeh), has been assigned a role encroaching on the turf of Health Minister Riyad Za'noun...