Word: fedayeen
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...Civilians, meanwhile, continually wandered out of town to encourage and even beg the U.S. soldiers to take Najaf. They said fedayeen irregulars were forcing local members of the al-Quds militia to fight by gathering their families and threatening to shoot them if they did not oppose the Americans. At one point, locals came out to thank the Americans for killing the area's Baath party leader, who they said had been executing civilians. The Baath leader, they said, had been killed in an air strike on a fedayeen stronghold...
...depth of the challenge that may lie ahead in pacifying Iraq. Many Iraqi forces are no longer in conventional military formation, but have adopted guerrilla tactics to face a more powerful enemy. Tuesday's sandstorm attack on the 7th Cavalry, for example, was carried out by members of the Fedayeen Saddam, a youth militia run by Uday Hussein, firing AK-47s and RPGs from SUVs and other non-military vehicles. And Saddam is certainly hoping the survival of his regime for the first week of the war will inspire some of the tribal chieftains he has courted and (and armed...
...tried to avert the war, even though his efforts may have been taken by some as a sign of weakness. He then called on Iraqis to be strong and patient and vowed that God would grant them victory. He saluted "the people of the tribes, Saddam's fedayeen (commanded by his son Uday), the men of the national security and the men of the armed forces" for their roles in the fighting...
...decades after the founding of Israel and a year after Israel's overwhelming victory in the Six-Day War, YASSER ARAFAT was emerging as the new leader of the Palestinian fedayeen, or "men of sacrifice." TIME profiled him and his movement in a 1968 cover story...
...fedayeen are most secretive of all about their high command, though the largest organization, Arafat's El Fatah, is said to be ruled by a committee of wealthy civilians in Damascus. Nor does anyone really know very much about Yasser Arafat, though everyone in the Arab world knows who he is. As El Fatah grew and felt the need for a visible spokesman, he became its ambassador extraordinary to the Arab world, its chief fund raiser and its field commander in Jordan. Arafat (his code name is Abu Ammar) sits at a wooden desk in his headquarters in Amman, dealing...