Relatives of Rabia Mohsin, 23, a Palestinian fighter from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group loosely tied to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party mourn during his funeral in the Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, on March 30, 2008. Palestinian medics said today they had recovered the bodies of two Palestinian militants killed in an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip. Another four militants were wounded in the Saturday evening strike near the northern town of Jabaliya in the Hamas-ruled territory, medics said. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)The al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade is loosely tied to Fatah? Hardly. It's a wholly owned subsidiary and the separation is a fiction pushed by Abbas and the diplomats to obfuscate the fact that Fatah still seeks Israel's destruction while allowing Fatah to suck at the teat of the West.
Fatah cultivated the Brigades as its elite terror force and basically operates at the discretion of Fatah. The fiction that it is a separate and distinct group comes in handy when the Brigades attacks Israelis as Fatah can claim that they didn't have anything to do with the terror operations.
Of course, Fatah is also in control of the Palestinian Authority, which under Oslo and all other agreements with Israel is supposed to crack down and eliminate all militias and stop terrorism against Israel along with the incitement to violence perpetrated by Palestinians in the media and the mosques on a daily basis.
Thus, to say that it's loosely affiliated with Fatah is a clear and distinct lie and obfuscation of the truth.
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