Fatah
n 1: 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: {al-Fatah},
{Fatah}, {al-Asifa}]