Word: yasser
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...police investigations continued in Italy and Austria, a consensus quickly emerged about the identity of the seven known terrorists, only three of whom survived the airport attacks. The men were apparently agents of Abu Nidal and his Fatah Revolutionary Council, which split in 1974 from Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah organization and in recent years has spent about as much time and energy trying to kill P.L.O. leaders and other Arabs as it has devoted to fighting Israel...
Sometime after the 1967 Six-Day War, Abu Nidal joined Yasser Arafat's Fatah arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He rose quickly through the ranks and in 1970 opened a P.L.O. office in Khartoum. About a year later he was asked to leave by the Sudanese, largely because of his efforts to recruit local Palestinian students as guerrilla fighters...
...moderate Arab regimes for his peace initiative, felt vulnerable standing alone on the high ground of Middle East politics. "The King is buying himself a little insurance," explained one U.S. State Department official. Others believe that Hussein plans to use his improved relations with Assad to put pressure on Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose refusal to endorse U.N. resolutions stating Israel's right to exist has stalled the King's peace plan. Assad loathes Arafat and would prefer Hussein to support harder-line Syrian-backed P.L.O. rebels. According to another theory, a Jordanian-Syrian reconciliation might...
...suggested otherwise. On an ideological basis, the struggle appeared to pit the pragmatic Marxist, President Muhammad, who has sought more amicable relations with his Arab neighbors and would welcome aid from such countries as Saudi Arabia, against the more zealously pro-Moscow Ismail and Antar. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat offered to mediate the dispute, and Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi declared his willingness to dispatch peace-keeping troops...
...Paris, an official of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization alleged that Syria was behind new threats in France. Among those advocating attacks last week was the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, which demanded the release of several militants jailed in France. More chilling, the group's communiqué suggested that French Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, who is one of eight French citizens being held hostage in Lebanon, should be executed as a "Zionist spy" to protest a visit to Paris last week by Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres...