Fatah violence causes angry backlash
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Over coffee, Fatah gunmen casually bragged about their latest exploit &#151; kidnapping a Hamas city council member from a crowded downtown bank. Their M16s leaning against a sofa where the hostage sat just days earlier, the men are untouchable &#151; the vanguard of Fatah's fight against Hamas in the West Bank.
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BEIRUT -- The militant demand that a French ban on Islamic head scarves be overturned has fueled a backlash among religious and political leaders in the Middle East, who have often been silent about hostage slayings and other terrorism.
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CAIRO -- Egyptians enraged at Israel's mistaken killing of three border policemen protested yesterday after Friday prayers at Cairo's main mosque under a banner that read: &quot;The pigs' apology doesn't quench our rage.&quot;
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AMSTERDAM Anger toward the Netherlands&#39; Muslim community percolated among the crowd that gathered outside the funeral for the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed by an Islamic extremist a week ago.
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The Fatah leader has popular support, but faces lawlessness and other challenges.
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GAZA CITY -- The secular Palestinian party Fatah, routed in the Gaza Strip by rival Hamas forces nearly three months ago, has begun to use political protest and reassemble its armed wing in order to resist the Islamic movement's tightening hold here.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank Palestinians at home and abroad have been weeping and shouting in the streets over the death of Yasser Arafat.
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A protest of Hamas rule by Fatah supporters turned violent Friday when Hamas men began forcefully dispersing the crowd, firing in the air and beating demonstrators and reporters.
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Arabs were torn between seething rage at  images of a U.S. soldier shooting dead a wounded Iraqi in a  mosque and dismay at Iraqi insurgents in Falluja for turning  holy mosques into battlegrounds.
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Arabs were torn between seething rage at images of a U.S. soldier shooting dead a wounded Iraqi in a mosque and dismay at Iraqi insurgents in Falluja for turning holy mosques into battlegrounds.
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Egyptians enraged at Israel's mistaken killing of three border policemen protested after Friday prayers at Cairo's main mosque under a banner that read: "The pigs' apology doesn't quench our rage."
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Sunday&#39;s bombings in Shiite holy cities - the deadliest insurgent attacks since July - appeared aimed at sparking sectarian strife.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Hamas forces armed with assault rifles and clubs beat supporters of the rival Palestinian faction Fatah as they tried to hold street prayers yesterday to protest against the Islamic group's rule in the Gaza Strip.
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Religious and political leaders say that there is a crisis in Islam because too many fatwas are being issued.
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Baghdad - A senior Sunni religious figure vented his outrage on Friday against those behind a double suicide bombing the previous day that left scores of children dead in Baghdad.
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Muslims in the country are outraged by revelations, uncovered by a TV sting, that clerics take money for their religious rulings
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The group of armed men belonging to Fatah&#39;s Al-Aqsa Martyrs&#39; Brigades, who opened fire in the official mourning tent for Yasser Arafat in Gaza on Monday, is affiliated with Ahmed Hallas (Abu Mazher), Fatah secretary in Gaza.