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...Saiqa was established by Syria in 1967 and is still largely funded by Damascus. Led by Zuheir Mohsen, 45, Saiqa (Thunderbolt) consists of possibly 2,000 men, including about 1,000 full-time guerrillas. Most of them are Palestinian refugees who fled to Syria. More military than political, Al Saiqa is little more than an unofficial auxiliary of the Syrian army...
...problem for the National Council is that the P.L.O. is dangerously split. Arafat and some other leaders, notably Saiqa's Zuhair Mohsen Nayef Hawatmeh, whose Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine was re sponsible for the Ma'alot massacre (TIME, May 27), prefer to take what they can get and establish an autonomous mini-Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan, the Gaza strip and the Hemmeh region...
Fatal Mistake. The bizarre string of events that led to the general's downfall began one afternoon late last month when he picked up his phone and dialed his guards commander. Somehow the wires got crossed, and Amri broke into a conversation between Mohsen Harazi, who owned a small camera shop in the capital, San'a, and a friend. Thinking that he was talking to his military subordinate, Amri identified himself as the Premier. Harazi, thinking that his friend was playing a joke, laughed. One thing led to another, and soon the two were trading insults...
...morning this week, three carloads of Syrian army officers rolled through the deserted streets of Damascus, stopped at the home of Syria's dictator, short, stumpy Husni Zaim. The officers awakened Marshal Zaim, told him he was under arrest. Then they sped to the home of bespectacled Premier Mohsen el Barazi, burst into his bedroom, took him from the house in his pajamas. Within the hour, a drumhead court-martial had sentenced both to death. As the sun rose, they were executed by a firing squad in the Mezze Prison...