Chapters 11 and 12 Summary and Analysis

Chapter 11

Yasir Arafat served as a lieutenant in the Egyptian army and joined the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood as a young man. He was forced out of Egypt because of his Brotherhood activities and fled to Kuwait where he formed the Fatah in the late 1950s. Mughniyah was recruited into one of the Fatah's intelligence organizations. Arafat provided support to the Syrian Brotherhood who was trying to bring down Hafiz Al-Asad. As a result, Hafiz banned Arafat from Syria forcing Arafat to settle in Tripoli, Lebanon where he was under constant attack from Hafiz's forces. In 1983, Arafat and four thousand of his followers were evacuated by the French navy and taken to safety in Tunis. Arafat offered the support of the Fatah to the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian revolution. When Arafat was forced out of Beirut in 1982, he handed...