The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades are committed to the decisions of the Fatah
leadership

IDF Spoksperson 26 November 2002

Sahar Habash, founder and official ideologue of the Fatah movement admitted
in an interview to the Jordanian newspaper Alhadat (November 19, 2002), that
the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement, are
committed to the decisions of the political leadership of the Fatah.

Following is a quotation from habash's interview:
"The brigades (Al-Aqsa Martyrs) were founded by the initiative of (the
operatives) on the ground by the leadership in the different regions. Their
establishment was intended to bring the Fatah to fulfill it's (worthy) role
in the struggle and in the Intifida. They were not founded by a decision of
the central committee (the supreme leadership of the Fatah) but they are
committed to the positions of the movement reached by the central committee
and the decisions of the national and Islamic forces (the supreme
coordinator body of the Palestinian political and semi-military forces
responsible for coordinating the Intifada activities. Note: The words of
Sahar Habash, a senior leader of the Fatah movement and very close to
Arafat, point to the direct ties between the military wing (active as a
terrorist wing) of the Fatah to the political leadership of the movement
headed by Yasser Arafat. It is worth remembering that the U.S and the
European Union declared in mid 2002 that the military wing of the Fatah was
a "terrorist organization".

Source http://al-hadath.arabia.com./article/0,8071,217_6580,00.html

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