al-Fatah
n : a Palestinian political and military organization founded by
Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a
Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained
terrorist and insurgent groups; "al-Fatah carried out
numerous acts of international terrorism in western
Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s" [syn: Fatah, al-Asifa]