Word: guerrillaism
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Since he began running his guerrilla campaign three months ago, Thompson has come a long way by playing hard to get. He has appealed to GOP voters not by campaigning but by intravenous means: filling in for Paul Harvey, writing for the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed page, blogging. The idea has been to feed the hunger of conservatives who don't see much in the current field to admire--and then rise up to fill the void. Though still officially undeclared, Thompson gets about 12% of the vote in primary-poll matchups...
...Fatah al-Islam's roots can loosely be traced to Israel's 1948 war of independence, when thousands of Palestinians fled their homes for a dozen refugee camps in Lebanon. The squalid, overcrowded camps became breeding grounds for the Palestine Liberation Organization's guerrilla groups. After Israel's invasion in 1982, designed to evict the P.L.O. from Lebanon, the Syrian regime launched a campaign of its own against Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization, sponsoring a splinter group that called itself Fatah al-Intifada. That faction, backed by Syrian artillery, drove Arafat out of Tripoli...
...Fatah al-Islam is headed by Shaker al-Absi, a veteran Palestinian guerrilla fighter who is thought to have fought American forces in Iraq and was linked to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq who was killed a year ago. In 2004, al-Absi was sentenced to death in absentia by a Jordanian court for the 2002 murder of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman. His group - thought to comprise 200-500 fighters drawn from several Arab countries - has recently begun establishing a presence in other refugee camps in Beirut and south Lebanon. Islamist sources...
...Israel's 1948 war of independence, when thousands of Palestinians fled their homes for a dozen refugee camps in Lebanon. Squalid, overcrowded camps such as Nahr el-Bared, where the Lebanese army is now battling Fatah al-Islam fighters, became breeding grounds for the Palestine Liberation Organization's guerrilla groups. After Israel's 1982 invasion to evict the PLO from Lebanon, the Syrian regime launched a campaign of its own against Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization, sponsoring a splinter group that called itself Fatah Intifadeh. That faction, backed by Syrian artillery, drove Arafat out of Tripoli...
...Fatah al-Islam is headed by Shaker al-Absi, a veteran Palestinian guerrilla fighter who originally trained in the Syrian Air Force. He is believed to have fought American forces in Iraq and was linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq who was killed a year ago. Al-Absi was sentenced to death in absentia by a Jordanian court in 2004 for the murder of American diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman. His fighters reportedly number 200 to 500 and are drawn from several Arab countries...