Word: fedayeen
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...Iraq. By 1982 he had his own construction firm and a lucrative contract to lay foundations for a string of warehouses at Baghdad's military airport. Early that year he met a handsome 30-year-old expatriate from Jerusalem named Mohammed Rashid. Awad knew Rashid was with the fedayeen -- freedom fighters -- but that was not unusual among Palestinians. Awad would go on picnics with Rashid and his wife Fatima, an attractive, Austrian-born woman with freckles, long blond hair and a healthy interest in firearms. Her real name, according to Western files, was Christine Pinter...
...Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem, a young Palestinian reflected on the effect the current fighting would have on the generation that has come of age under the Israeli occupation. "We grew up seeing the fedayeen [the Palestinian guerrillas] as hero figures," he said. "That has been shattered now." Others bridled at the fact that the Syrian-backed rebels were led by men who had originally come from the West Bank. Said an East Jerusalem journalist: "The moment they lifted arms against other Palestinians, they lost the right to be called Palestinians...
...awoke to news of a staggering event: Palestinian guerrillas had murdered three members of one family in the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot, seized the school and taken four teachers and more than 90 schoolchildren hostage while demanding the release of 20 fedayeen in Israeli prisons...
...which had been Sadat's closest ally and, like Egypt, had suffered from Libya's belligerency. But in Libya, happy flag-waving crowds shouted their approval. In Lebanon, Palestinian commandos danced in the streets as if celebrating a victory. "We shake the hand that pulled the trigger," said one fedayeen commander. Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, who was in Peking, declared: "What we are witnessing is the beginning of the failure of the Camp David agreement with the fall of one of its symbols." A number of other Arab governments were outwardly unsympathetic but inwardly troubled. The Saudis broke...
...revived group is Salah Khalaf, better known as Abu Iyad, the P.L.O.'s "Interior Minister" and, as it happens, one of Arafat's top aides. In September 1970, Abu Iyad first launched the Black September terrorist group as a result of bitter fighting that year between Palestinian fedayeen and Jordan's King Hussein, a conflict that had led to the P.L.O.'s expulsion from Jordan...