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Four days after the Beit Lid bombing, Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shkaki spoke with Time correspondent Lara Marlowe in Damascus, giving a chilling picture of how he says the attack was planned. Though he disclaimed direct responsibility, he was obviously pleased, grinning and laughing throughout the interview. Born in the Gaza Strip, Shkaki, 44, joined the Muslim Brotherhood, a conservative Islamist group, while studying medicine in Egypt in the '70s. He returned to the Gaza Strip in 1981 and founded Islamic Jihad. Shkaki's movement set itself apart from other groups with similar names by staging suicide attacks in Israel...
Younger recruits burn with zeal to destroy the Zionist enemy, but some of the leaders speak warily about the dubious rewards of a life of making terrorist war. Yasser Arafat's brother Fathi, a doctor who heads the Palestinian Red Crescent (equivalent of the Red Cross), remarks almost whimsically: "I think the world is divided into four classes: first, second, third and Palestinians. All the governments have decided this. Maybe there should be a zoo for us. You know, with a sign reading HERE IS A TERRORIST...
Situated on the edge of the battle-scarred Sabra Refugee Camp in Beirut is the Acre Hospital, one of the 35 hospitals and 100 clinics operated by the P.L.O. Acre is the headquarters of Dr. Fathi Arafat, 48, chairman of the Palestinian Red Crescent Organization and younger brother of Yasser Arafat. Born in the Old City of Jerusalem, Dr. Arafat took charge of the P.L.O.'s medical and social program in 1965. He is especially proud of Acre, a modern facility with intensive-care units as well as rehabilitation centers for commandos injured in action. Unlike other Lebanese hospitals...
...Palestine Liberation Organization, which claims the allegiance of 90% of the estimated 14,000 Palestinian fighters in Lebanon, moved quickly to assure the U.N. that it deplored the incident and would crack down on the group responsible for it. Among the surgeons attending Salvan was Dr. Fathi Arafat, Yasser's brother; one of Salvan's first visitors was the P.L.O. boss himself, bearing flowers...
...Communists and Nasserites, Egyptian Communist Writer Fathi Abdel Fattah tells of leftists imprisoned during Nasser's reign who were not allowed to wear shoes even while being forced to do hard labor in desert areas infested by scorpions and snakes. Another anti-Nasser book, called Second Grade in Prison by Mustafa Amin, a prominent rightist who spent nine years in Nasser's jails, charges that 21 political prisoners were murdered in their cells in 1957 simply because they refused to do hard labor...