A branch of Fatah known as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades has carried out anti-Israel terrorist operations in the past, and has been celebrated at a Fatah convention as an honored branch of Fatah.
On the reported killing of Osama bin-Laden, the Fatah group issued a statement, which included this (translated by Palestinian Media Watch): "We say to the American and Israeli occupier: The [Islamic] nation which produced leaders who changed the course of history through their Jihad and their endurance is a nation that is capable of supplying an abundance of new blood into the arteries of the resistance and is capable of restoring the glory of Islam and the flag of Allah's oneness, Allah willing."
And we have been told by the mainstream media that Fatah is nationalistic and not religious. Doesn't this announcement concerning capability of martyrdom for "restoring the glory of Islam" sound sufficiently religious and jihadic to be noticed? Doesn't it sound like Fatah is moving under the Hamas tent?
