Word: fedayeen
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...grenades and almost 800 Ibs. of explosives, quietly rowed toward five different points along the moonlit shore. Helicopters hovered offshore with reinforcements; they were not needed. The raiders took less than 2½ hours to accomplish their missions: the assassination of three Palestinian leaders and the destruction of several fedayeen facilities. The Israelis killed at least 14 other people and wounded many more. Their own losses: two dead and two wounded. It was, all in all, one of the most spectacular raids that the Israelis had ever undertaken...
...when two nondescript men and a dark-haired woman in her mid-30s visited Beirut on Western passports. Agents of Mossad, the Israeli external-intelligence network, they laid the groundwork for the extraordinary invasion. They were helped by Israeli agents living in Beirut, including some who had infiltrated the fedayeen movement itself and others who arrived later. To get ready for the commandos, six agents went to Avis and a local firm called Lenacar and rented a station wagon, four American sedans and a pert blue Renault sporting a rallye stripe...
Entering by a rear yard to avoid a protective squad of fedayeen in front, the Israelis climbed to Adwan's third-floor apartment. While one of them rang the front doorbell, the others somehow got in through another door. When Adwan answered the ring, the attackers were behind him. Before he could defend himself, they pumped 53 bullets into him. His wife jumped into bed with their six-year-old daughter and four-year-old son and pulled the covers over their heads. The Israelis ignored the three as they methodically ransacked the apartment, scooping up documents listing...
...Mediterranean, provoking the sharpest exchange between Washington and Tripoli since Gaddafi came to power. In other spending aimed against Israel, Gaddafi gives at least $125 million a year to Egypt, about $45 million to Syria and perhaps $20 million to Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and other Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas. (Sudan has officially accused Gaddafi of instigating the kidnap-murder of three U.S. and Belgian diplomats in Khartoum last month...
...Israelis can afford to delay, and the Arabs cannot bring themselves to do otherwise. Even the Arabs' hopes for the Palestinian fedayeen as a force that could break the impasse have faded, although, as one U.S. diplomat observes, "We will have the terrorist problem in the Middle East as long as the Palestinian problem is not solved." Of particular concern is the uncontrollable Black September group, which some fedayeen leaders in Beirut describe as "not an organization but a state of mind." They mean that various groups of fedayeen who become disgruntled may temporarily declare themselves members of Black...