Word: harakat
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...fighting terrorism. The government has extradited three key terrorists in the past, most recently a leader of the plot to kill U.S. tourists overseas during millennium celebrations. Yet U.S. officials believe--and Pakistan denies--that Pakistan funds, trains and supports a terrorist group deemed close to bin Laden, Harakat ul-Mujahedin, whose leader signed the Saudi millionaire's fatwa against the U.S. Counterterrorism experts hope Clinton's visit to Pakistan on March 25 will help tip the balance back toward its being an ally...
...Muhammadi, the President-designate, heads the Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami (Islamic Revolutionary Movement). He is a former Muslim educator and is known as a vociferous anti-Communist...
...Soviet troops have died in the eight-year conflict (compared with nearly 50,000 U.S. troops in Viet Nam). The mujahedin denounced the accord last week, largely because they were not invited to participate, but they are nonetheless gleeful over the Soviet retreat. Said Nabi Mohammadi, the leader of Harakat, one of the main resistance groups: "Small Afghanistan has triumphed over the wild Soviet bear...
...name is an acronym derived from the Arabic words Harakat al Tahrir al-Falastin, or Movement for the Liberation of Palestine. Its initials, H.T.F., form the Arabic word for death. They are ingeniously reversible to F.T.H., pronounced "faht," meaning conquest -hence El Fatah or, as it is less commonly spelled, El Fateh...
Asifa is the military arm of a group called El Fatah, which is a reverse acronym standing for the Arabic words Harakat Tahrir Falastin (Movement for the Liberation of Palestine). By itself, El Fatah means "Conquest." One of El Fatah's top leaders is Haj Amin Husseini, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Since the first of the year, Asifa claims to have made 13 raids into Israel to commit acts of "strategic sabotage," that is, the dynamiting of reservoirs and kibbutz buildings...