Yasser Arafat: Tactician of Terror | EUROtoday

It was an affront – and a well-calculated orchestration. In New York on November 13, 1974, a brief, middle-aged man appeared earlier than the United Nations General Assembly. He wore the black and white scarf of Palestine round his head and smiled exuberantly. His facial expressions and gestures had lengthy since established themselves as a model; At that point he was already one of the crucial well-known personalities on the earth. The image that depicted him on the quilt of the was iconic Time-journal six years sooner than “Fedayeen Leader” offered himself because the chief of the Palestinian irregulars: Jassir Arafat.