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Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades have taken prominent part in July 2004 riots in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian officers has been kidnapped and PA security headquarters buildings and policemen were attack by armed gunmen [9]. The firing of Qassam rockets from the Gaza Strip by Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades into Israel is strongly opposed by those living closest to the firing location due to frequent Israeli military responses to Qassam rocket launches. Following his arrest, an al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade teenagers' militant cell was exposed and arrested in Nablus. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al-Aqsa_Martyrs_Brigades   (1296 words)

Encyclopedia: Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (كتائب شهداء الاقصى) are one of the militias of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah faction. The firing of Qassam rockets from the Gaza Strip by Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades into Israel is strongly opposed by those living closest to the firing location due to frequent Israeli military responses to Qassam rocket launches. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades have taken prominent part in July 2004 riots in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian officers has been kidnapped and PA security headquarters buildings and policemen were attack by armed gunmen. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Al_Aqsa-Martyrs%27-Brigades   (4026 words)

The Agenda The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have established an organizational structure which operates through the terrorist organizations, and includes: "military units" responsible for carrying out the attacks, and "security units" which are responsible for planning the attacks and the organization's internal security. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is part of the Fatah movement, is loyal to the movement's ideology, and translates the movement's political line into terrorist activity against Israel. The new body, the armed militias, were called the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and include most of the fighters within the Fatah (PLO). www.jafi.org.il /agenda/2001/english/wk27/5.asp   (365 words)

CNN.com - Palestinian officials: IDF kills 2 Al Aqsa members - Mar. 1, 2004 Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is a military offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement that has carried out numerous attacks against military targets and civilians in Israel and in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. The Israeli military attacks on Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades came a day after an Israeli military helicopter attack killed three "senior members of the Islamic Jihad military wing who were planning murderous attacks against civilian and military targets," the IDF said. Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for a February 22 suicide bombing of a crowded Jerusalem bus that killed eight people. www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/02/29/mideast.violence   (874 words)

Arafat's involvement in terrorism The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, “Fatah”/ “Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades” in the southern area wishes to express its deep gratitude to the fighting brother, Mahmud Jabari (familiar Fatah activist) for his cooperation with the fighters of this people and for his loyal bond with the homeland and its revolution. The National Palestinian Liberation Movement, Fatah, and its military wing, the “Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades” in Palestine, is escorting its casualty, the commander hero on his last trip. Al Aqsa Martyrs (and Church) of the Nativity of www.intelligence.org.il /eng/bu/ya/app_a.htm   (569 words)

Wes Roth: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades: "Arafat assassinated" Brigades of Martyr Yasser Arafat claimed today that "Zionist Israel and the government" assassinated Arafat" by putting him under siege. www.wesroth.com /mt_archives/000164.html   (39 words)

Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror activity, their arms requirements, their structure and organization (in the Jenin area, for instance) and their financial requirements can be learned from this correspondence (the financing of their activity is very central in the correspondence). The report reviews the activity of the “Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades” in the Jenin area and requests financial aid from Barghouti on the background of accumulated debts of the “Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades” and the competition between them and competing terrorist organizations (the PIJ and Hamas). The request was issued by the Fatah and the “Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades” and the stamp on the document is a joint stamp of Fatah and “Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades”. www.intelligence.org.il /eng/bu/ya/ya_hp.htm   (1558 words)

Arafat alleged to raise Libyan money / Sources say he uses funds to finance Al Aqsa Brigades Al Aqsa is also suspected of involvement in a shooting attack near Ramallah on Friday that occurred during a Jerusalem press conference held by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. Last Tuesday night, Al Aqsa claimed responsibility for killing a 7-year-old Israeli girl and wounding her 2-year- old sister in a shooting attack on their family's car as it drove along one of Israel's major motorways near the border with the West Bank. Members of the Brigades confirmed to this reporter last week that they were receiving funds from Arafat's office despite efforts by the new Palestinian government headed by Abbas to end attacks against Israel. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/06/23/MN285456.DTL   (977 words)

Salon.com News Secular and deadly: The rise of the Martyrs Brigades The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group associated with Arafat's Fatah faction, is supplanting Hamas as a crucial player in the bloody war between Palestinians and Israelis. Israeli analysts initially belittled the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (the name is taken from Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest shrines in the Islamic world) as "armed gangs," but they have become a deadly force, inflicting more casualties than the Islamists from the Hamas and Jihad movements combined. Al Aqsa members carried out the attack on the Moment Cafe the weekend before last in Jerusalem in which 10 people were killed; they also staged the recent attack on the army checkpoint in the territories in which 10 people were also killed. www.salon.com /news/feature/2002/03/19/brigades/index_np.html   (560 words)

al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade (Kata'ib Shuhada' al-Aqsa) emerged from Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction of the PLO in 2001, fiercely loyal to Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade organized some of the most gruesome terrorist attacks in Israel, especially during the escalation of violence in 2001 and 2002. In that period, the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade increased the level of its cooperation with other terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad. www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1991to_now_plo_alaqsa_brigade.php   (542 words)

Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claim: "We will also hurt your children" Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, has published an official announcement claiming it's responsibility for the deadly terrorist attack in kibbutz Metser, in which 5 Israelis were murdered, including a mother and her two small children aged 4yrs and 5yrs. Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades declared that they would continue carrying out such terror attacks, including suicide bomb attacks and the murder of Israeli children. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is classified as a terrorist organization not only by Israel, but also by the United States and the European Union. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/788233/posts   (1641 words)

CBC News Indepth: Middle East The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades formed in October 2000 in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades is a Palestinian militant group that has carried out attacks on Israeli military and civilians. Some call the Brigades a group with "loose ties" to Fatah or a "violent offshoot," while others imply a much closer link. www.cbc.ca /news/background/middleeast/alaqsa.html   (374 words)

CNN.com - U.S. lists Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades as terror group - March 21, 2002 The Al Aqsa Brigades has carried out numerous terror attacks against Israeli military and civilian targets in Israel and in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. The Al Aqsa Brigades have killed 38 Israelis in six attacks during March. Senior officials said it also makes a point to Arafat: By publicly designating Al Aqsa a terrorist group, the administration is giving tacit approval for an Israeli military response if Arafat does not move quickly to dismantle the group and arrest those responsible for the Jerusalem bombing. edition.cnn.com /2002/US/03/21/us.mideast   (343 words)

Terrorism - In the Spotlight: al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades emerged on the scene soon after the break of the current intifada (uprising) on Sept. 30, 2000. All the documents were signed by al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and referred to themselves as part of Fatah. The Brigades operate mainly in the West Bank, the stronghold of Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. www.cdi.org /terrorism/aqsa.cfm   (1367 words)

albawaba.com middle east news information::Israel assassinates senior Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades member in Gaza Strip A senior Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades member, Hassan Madhoun, was killed in an Israeli aerial attack on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip. A spokesman from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said that "our retaliation will be equal to the size of the crime." The attack, which occurred in the northern region of the Gaza Strip, reportedly killed another Palestinian as well, believed to be a Hamas operative, according to the AP. www.albawaba.com /en/countries/Palestine/190961   (148 words)

Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade comprises an unknown number of small cells of Fatah-affiliated activists that emerged at the outset of the current Palestinian intifadah (uprising) to attack Israeli targets. Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade Council on Foreign Relations in cooperation with the Markle Foundation - Terrorism: Questions & Answers After a deadly March 2002 suicide bombing by the al-Aqsa Brigades, the State Department added the group as a foreign terrorist organization. www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/alaqsamartyrs.htm   (209 words)

0,7340,L-3020646,00.html Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is a terrorist group based in the West Bank affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have targeted both Israeli civilians and military personnel. The Brigades emerged at the beginning of the Palestinian intifada in 2000, which began shortly after Ariel Sharon, who was head of the opposition in the Knesset at the time, visited the Temple Mount site under heavy guard. www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3020646,00.html   (150 words)

IMRA - Sunday, January 12, 2003 Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades: "Suicide attacks will continue" The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement headed Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, speak and act, promise and fulfill their promises Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement, described by the www.imra.org.il /story.php3?id=15355   (474 words)

albawaba.com middle east news information::Two Palestinians dead; Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades vow ”painful” revenge Rayan, a member of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades was critically wounded in the head late Thursday when Israel targeted three Palestinians activists located in a farm close Jabalyia refugee camp. In a statement, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade vowed a tough painful reprisal for the murder of the three men. Meanwhile, Palestinian medics reported that Khaddar Rayan died of wounds he sustained when an Israeli missile hit a group of Al Aqsa Martyrs fighters, in the northern part of Gaza Strip. www.albawaba.com /en/news/192453   (210 words)

ISRAELPA1002-05.htm While the local leaders of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades are criminally responsible for crimes they ordered or oversaw, Fatah officials can be more appropriately said to bear a high degree of political responsibility for the crimes carried out in the name of their organization. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades have claimed responsibility for attacks against Israeli military targets and also for several major indiscriminate shooting attacks against Israeli civilians inside Israel, including one in Afula in November 2001 and a second at a bat mitzvah in Hadera in January 2002, as well as multiple shooting attacks against Israeli settlers. Based on currently available evidence, however, Human Rights Watch did not find that Fatah officials possessed a supervisor-subordinate relationship over the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades or the effective control required to hold the Fatah leadership criminally liable for the actions of the Brigades. www.hrw.org /reports/2002/isrl-pa/ISRAELPA1002-05.htm   (11269 words)

The Fatah-Al Aqsa Brigade The attack was perpetrated by a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. The militant al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack. The evidence, however, clearly indicates that the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade is not some "loose offshoot," but rather has a direct and ongoing bond to the Fatah party, which holds a majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament. honestreporting.com /articles/critiques/The_Fatah-Al_Aqsa_Brigade.asp   (741 words)

SITE Institute: Background on Terrorist Groups - Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades consists of an unknown number of small cells of Fatah-affiliated terrorists that emerged at the outset of the current intifadah to attack Israeli targets. Al Aqsa operates in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip and has claimed attacks inside all three areas. In January 2002, al-Aqsa claimed responsibility for the first suicide bombing carried out by a female. www.siteinstitute.org /bin/display_groupbackground.cgi?Category=Groups&ID=3   (144 words)

JMCC / Documents, A press statement issued by Al-Aqsa Brigades regarding Washington decision On this occasion, al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades reiterate that they will continue in the path of resistance and martyrdom without caring to the US decision. A press statement issued by Al-Aqsa Brigades regarding Washington decision JMCC / Documents, A press statement issued by Al-Aqsa Brigades regarding Washington decision www.jmcc.org /banner/banner1/bayan/aqsabrigades.htm   (549 words)

Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Develop New Type of Rocket The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the paramilitary wing of the Fatah Movement headed by Yasser Arafat, published an official statement on Friday (February 21, 2003) claiming responsibility for firing rockets at the Jewish community of Gush Katif. It is important to note that the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is defined by both Europe and the USA as a terrorist organization. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades take responsibility for the firing of rockets at [The Israeli community] Gush Katif…with a new type of rocket called Al Buraq. freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/851380/posts   (511 words)

Palestinian Gunmen From The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Attack Bethlehem Mayor's Office On Manger Square Next To Where Christ Was Born :: Middle East News and Perspectives :: Hyscience About 15 members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed "offshoot" of the ruling Fatah movement, burst into the Mayor's office building on Manger Square, next to the Church of the Nativity, and occupied it. The Al Aqsa gunmen demanded to be put on the government payroll and the security officers demanded back wages that had not been paid, Taameri said. According to a "Brigades" member, the timing was purposely chosen to coincide with the Christmas season because of the international community's attention toward Bethlehem - so the timing of the attack symbolizes the Palestinian terrorist's utter disregard for Christianity's holiest site, and Christianity itself, as well as for the Palestinian Authority. www.hyscience.com /archives/2005/12/palestinian_gun.php   (619 words)

Aljazeera.Net - Al-Aqsa Brigades leader shot dead Violent clashes have erupted later between the soldiers and fighters of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and al-Quds Brigades. Amjad al-Saadi, 28, a leader of Palestinian President Yasir Arafat's Fatah armed faction, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was killed on Tuesday, our correspondent said. He quoted witnesses as saying that the soldiers could have arrested al-Saadi, but they did not. english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/1F543F1A-32B8-4062-A956-44AD2CB7F6F3.htm   (325 words)

Israel assassinates Al-Aqsa brigades leader - A local leader of the al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades, Samer Saadi, was one of three Palestinian resistance fighters assassinated by Israeli occupation forces early Thursday in the West Bank, Palestinian security and medical sources said. Security sources identified the Islamic Jihad fighters as Nidal Ahluf, and Samer Saadi, a cousin of the Al Aqsa leader in Jenin who has exactly the same name. Samer Saadi, head of the Brigades in Jenin, was shot dead during overnight clashes which erupted after Israeli troops raided the northern West Bank city, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. www.aljazeera.com /cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_ID=9602   (938 words)

BBC NEWS Middle East Profile: Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades One of the Israeli responses to attacks by the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and other groups were the heavy attacks against the Palestinian Authority during 2002, which saw much of the authority's infrastructure destroyed. Israel alleges that Marwan Barghouti, the Fatah leader in the West Bank, is also the head of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. The brigade is said to have grown out of Fatah's need to be seen to be putting up some kind of resistance to Israeli raids into land that was meant to be under Palestinian control. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/1760492.stm   (357 words)

Al-Ahram Weekly Region 'We are at war' Zakaria Zubeidi is the leader of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (AMB) in the northern West Bank, a militia ever more loosely tied to Arafat's ruling Fatah movement. He also burnt down the local office of the elected Palestinian Legislative Council. A Kalashnikov is propped up beside him on the sofa. weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/718/re6.htm   (1285 words)

The U.S. Army Professional Writing Collection Less sophisticated groups are Hamas, Palestine Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, though they have engaged in a greater number of suicide bombings than some of the other major groups. The Brigades emerged in 2000 as an offshoot of Yassar Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Suicide bombers look forward to death because, as shuhada (singular shahid), or martyrs, they expect to be rewarded by Allah in paradise while they and their families gain social status within their societies. www.army.mil /professionalwriting/volumes/volume3/april_2005/4_05_3.html   (7095 words)

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