* Black September – Black September was a group formed by leading Fatah members in 1971, following the " Black September " events in Jordan, to clandestinely organize attacks that Fatah did not want to be openly associated with.

A number of sources, including Mohammed Oudeh ( Abu Daoud ), one of the masterminds of the Munich massacre, and Benny Morris, a prominent Israeli historian, have stated that Black September was an armed branch of Fatah used for paramilitary operations.

In his book Stateless, Salah Khalaf ( Abu Iyad ), Arafat's chief of security and a founding member of Fatah, wrote that: " Black September was not a terrorist organization, but was rather an auxiliary unit of the resistance movement, at a time when the latter was unable to fully realize its military and political potential.

" A March 1973 document released in 1981 by the U. S. State Department seemed to confirm that Fatah was Black September's parent organization.

The structure offered plausible deniability to the Fatah leadership, which was careful to distance itself from Black September operations.

Fatah needed Black September, according to Benny Morris, who was at the time a professor of history at Ben-Gurion University.

As a result of pressure from militants, writes Morris, a Fatah congress in Damascus in August – September 1971 agreed to establish Black September.

Wright has compared Islamic Jihad to the Black September wing of the Palestinian Fatah, serving the function of providing its controlling organization, in this case Hezbollah, with some distance and plausible deniability from acts that might provoke retaliation or other problems.

He adhered to the Syrian Social Nationalist Party ( SSNP ) in 1951 and joined Fatah, the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) in the 1960s and later on the Black September movement named after the similarly name Black September events in Jordan.

Above and beyond this, an ‘ alphabet soup ’ of other lesser-known smaller Parties were associated with the LNM, namely the Revolutionary Communist Group – RCG, the Lebanese Revolutionnary Party – LRP, the Front of Patriotic Christians – PFC, the Democratic Lebanese Movement – DLM, the Movement of Arab Lebanon – MAL, the Arab Revolutionary Movement – ARM, the Partisans of the Revolution, the Vanguards of Popular Action – VPA, the Organization of Arab Youth – OAY, the Units of the Arab Call – UAC, the Movement of Arab Revolution – MAR, the Sixth of February Movement, the 24 October Movement – 24 OM, the Lebanese Movement in Support of Fatah – LMSF, the Assyrian Assault Battalion – AAB, the Knights of Ali, the Black Panthers, etc.

Among other acts, Black September accused al-Tal of personally torturing and executing Abu Ali Iyad, a Fatah field commander whose partisans formed the backbone of the Black September organization.

Tal was the first victim of the newly formed Black September Organization, a more militant offshoot of the Palestinian militant organization Fatah.

Initially he was associated with Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, and later he co-founded the more extreme Black September organization.

* September 13: Three senior militants belonging to the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades were killed in an Israeli targeted killing in Jenin.

Between May and September 2007, the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon became the center of fighting between the Lebanese Internal Security Force and Fatah al-Islam gunmen.

Mohammed Dahlan ( Arabic: محمد دحلان ) born on September 29, 1961 in Khan Yunis Refugee Camp, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip also known by the kunya or nom de guerre Abu Fadi ( Arabic: أبو فادي ) is a Palestinian politician, the former leader of Fatah in Gaza.

As-Sa ' iqa was formed as an organization by the Syrian-led Ba ' ath Party in September 1966, but first activated in December 1968, when Syria tried to build up an alternative to Yasser Arafat, then emerging with his Fatah faction as the primary Palestinian fedayeen leader and politician.

In this attack, six Fatah members hijacked a bus and killed 35 Israeli civilians.

However, on 28 December 2005, the leadership of the two factions agreed to submit a single list to voters, headed by Barghouti, who began actively campaigning for Fatah from his jail cell.

The Sixth General Assembly of the Fatah Movement, nearly 16 years after the Oslo Conference and 20 years since the last Fatah convention began on 4 August 2009, in Bethlehem, West Bank after being repeatedly postponed over conflicts ranging from who would be represented, to what venue would be acceptable.

Officials on the third day of the Fatah convention in Bethlehem unanimously accepted the proposal put forth by the chairman of the Araft Institute stating that Israel had been behind the " assassination " of the late Palestinian Authority Chairman and affirmed Fatah's request for international aid to probe the issue.

Delegates voted to fill 18 seats on the 23-seat Central Committee of Fatah, and 81 seats of the 128-seat Revolutionary Council after a week of deliberations.

They are generally seen as tied to the " young guard " of Fatah politics, organizing young members on the street level, but it is not clear that they form a faction in themselves inside Fatah politics ; rather, different Brigades units may be tied to different Fatah factional leaders.

* Interview on Radio France International Fatah Central Committee member Abdallah Al Frangi

* 1966 – In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.

Later, ( Hirst, 2003, p. 427 ) a promised Charter amendment based on Fatah doctrine " that all Jews < nowiki > date restriction </ nowiki >... were to be entitled to Palestinian citizenship " failed due to doctrinal quarrels over the meaning of the precise nature of the proposed Democratic State.

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

" Aburish writes that it was on Arafat's orders that Fatah remained, and that the Jordanian Army agreed to back them if heavy fighting ensued.

February: Negotiations in Mecca produced agreement on a Palestinian national unity government signed by Abbas on behalf of Fatah and Khaled Mashal on behalf of Hamas.

Ismail Haniya — then Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas leader — called on Palestinians to unite to protest the excavations, while Fatah said they would end their ceasefire with Israel.

Barghouti joined Fatah at age 15, and he was a co-founder of the Fatah Youth Movement ( Shabiba ) on the West Bank.

As an undergraduate, he was active in student politics on behalf of Fatah and headed the BZU Student Council.

He has stated that, " I, and the Fatah movement to which I belong, strongly oppose attacks and the targeting of civilians inside Israel, our future neighbor, I reserve the right to protect myself, to resist the Israeli occupation of my country and to fight for my freedom " and has said, " I still seek peaceful coexistence between the equal and independent countries of Israel and Palestine based on full withdrawal from Palestinian territories occupied in 1967.

On their website, and on posters they post the Fatah emblem.

The PFLP has generally taken a hard line on Palestinian national aspirations, opposing the more moderate stance of Fatah.

Halliburton ’ s work on the pipeline crossing the Tigris river at Al Fatah has been called a failure.

The formation of BLR / Amal was revealed in July 1975 when an accidental explosion of a landmine at one of the ‘ Fatahland ’ camps near Baalbek killed over than 60 Shia trainees, which caused considerable embarrassment to Fatah and forced Al-Sadr to admit publicly the militia ’ s existence.

The Brigades are locally organized and have been said to suffer from poor cohesion and internal discipline, at times ignoring ceasefires and other initiatives announced by the central Fatah leadership.

Israel invaded Lebanon in response to Fatah attacks in Israel in March 1978, occupying most of the area south of the Litani River, and resulting in the evacuation of at least 100, 000 Lebanese, as well as approximately 2, 000 deaths.

Although hesitant at first to take sides in the conflict, Arafat and Fatah played an important role in the Lebanese Civil War.

" The Civil War's first phase ended and Arafat — who was commanding Fatah forces at Tel al-Zaatar — narrowly escaped with assistance from Saudi and Kuwaiti diplomats.

Palestinian gunmen ( presumably of the Fatah faction ) open fire at the convoy of Prime Minister Haniyeh as it passed through a refugee camp in central Gaza.

There is disagreement among historians, journalists, and primary sources about the nature of the BSO and the extent to which it was controlled by Fatah, the PLO faction controlled at the time by Yasser Arafat.

While Fatah absorbed enormous casualties in the 1982 Lebanon War, the General Command succeeded in surviving, and at the end retained most of its previous manpower.

The only group that waged uninterrupted attrition against Arafat was the Fatah Revolutionary Council led by maverick hardliner Sabri al-Banna ( better known as Abu Nidal ), who was viewed by other Palestinian organizations as not so much a guerrilla as a pure criminal with no higher goal than deposing the moderates at the head of the PLO.

* On 27 December 1985, after several failed attempts to attack El Al aircraft, guerrillas of the Fatah Revolutionary Council attacked El Al ticket counters at Rome-Fiumicino and Vienna-Schwechat airports, killing 18 people.

After Yasser Arafat's death Mahmoud Abbas was seen, at least by Fatah, as his natural successor.

* In an angry public exchange, Yasser Arafat calls Fatah official Nasser Yousef a " traitor " and hurls a microphone at him.

But at a meeting with the British ambassador to Egypt in 1992, Libyan colonel Abdul Fatah Younis apologised on behalf of the Libyan government and offered to extradite her killers.

The thesis of 1982 doctoral dissertation of Mahmoud Abbas, a co-founder of Fatah and one of the leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization who earned his Ph. D. in history at the Oriental College in Moscow, was " The Secret Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement ".

In July 1968 armed, non-state actors such as Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine achieved the majority of the Palestinian National Council votes, and on February 3, 1969, at the Palestinian National Council in Cairo, the leader of the Fatah, Yasser Arafat was elected as the chairman of the PLO.

Abul Fatah Dawood imprisoned for life at Ghazni.

* Fatah Tanzim at GlobalSecurity. org

She was offered a post in Italy by Fatah as political officer working at the PLO office, but she declined choosing instead a military career.