Word: najjar
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...Aren't you tired of fighting? Doesn't the road seem long when you take small steps?" Mohammed Yusuf Najjar, better known as Abu Yusuf, faced these questions two months ago in an interview with L'Orient-Le Jour, the influential Beirut newspaper. Abu Yusuf, 44, replied that he did not expect his generation of Palestinians to defeat the Israelis. "We plant the seeds, and the others will reap the harvest," he said. "Most probably we'll all die, killed because we are confronting a fierce enemy. But the youth will replace...
...organization consists of 400 to 600 members-U.S. sources put the figure closer to 100-who plan operations, then recruit rank-and-file members of Al Fatah to carry them out. According to the Israelis, the organization is headquartered in Beirut and commanded by one Mohammed Yusif Najjar, otherwise known as Abu Yusuf, who is a former top intelligence officer of Al Fatah. The Israelis claim that it is divided into four main units that are variously responsible for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas-where Black September has not yet struck...