Word: wazir
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...Khalil al-Wazir's death. He was a man of moral integrity, a man of his word. He commanded a lot of respect and affection among those who followed him. I think his loss will be felt within the P.L.O. But I believe the uprising will continue...
...Israeli navy provided transport across the Mediterranean in a large vessel, then carried the team of 20 commandos ashore in rubber dinghies some 20 miles north of Sidi Bou Said. The commandos loaded into a Peugeot 305 and two Volkswagen vans and were delivered by MOSSAD agents to al-Wazir's doorstep. Other agents sabotaged the telephone switch box in the neighborhood...
...Israelis made no attempt to disguise their relief that al-Wazir's career had come to an end. "I do not know who killed him, but I do not regret the fact that someone did it," said a government official. "After all he did to us, he deserved it." A founding member of Fatah, al-Wazir was second only to Arafat in the military arm of the P.L.O. He dispatched the first Fatah squad in 1965 to sabotage Israel's main water project, and has been in charge of planning and coordinating military operations inside Israel since...
...Wazir has been associated with two particularly brutal attacks: the 1975 takeover of the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv, which resulted in 18 deaths, and a 1978 coastal raid that left a trail of 45 dead bodies from Haifa to Tel Aviv. He is also believed to have helped direct the uprising in the occupied territories. Israeli authorities pointed an accusing finger at al-Wazir last March, following the hijacking of a bus in southern Israel that claimed the lives of three Israeli civilians. At the time, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir vowed, "Our hand will bring to justice those...
...occupied territories, al-Wazir is certain to be hailed as a martyr. Though his military duties made him responsible for some of Fatah's bloodiest acts, he was widely perceived as a moderate within the P.L.O. The soft-spoken guerrilla leaves behind a wife, five children and a young generation of frustrated Palestinians who, inspired by al-Wazir's death, can be expected to resort to new acts of violence...