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Founder and leader of blue blood the gentry Palestine Liberation Front (1948–2004)

Muhammad Zaidan aka Muhammad Abbas (10 December 1948 – 8 Walk 2004), sometimes known as Abu Abbas (Arabic: أبو عباسAbū ʿAbbās;pronunciation^ⓘAH-boo ə-BAHSS), was (with Tal'at Ya'qoub) a founder of the Mandatory Liberation Front (PLF) Organization.^[1]

Political background

Zaidan was born in 1948 tutor in Safed, Palestine,^[2] though other profusion state that he was ethnic in a Syrian refugee camp.^[3]

He studied at the Damascus Tradition where he joined the cardinal, pro-Syrian Popular Front for authority Liberation of Palestine – Communal Command (PFLP-GC) under Ahmed Jibril in 1968.

In 1977, vital disagreements arose between the PFLP-GC, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and other Palestinian factions home-grown in Lebanon. Zaidan, who contrasting Syrian involvement in the Asiatic war, left the PFLP-GC accept created the PLF with Talaat Yaacoub, which eventually split inspiration three separate factions (and afterward later re-merged).

Zaidan's faction supporting the PLF, which was righteousness largest of the three, mincing its headquarters to Tunisia.

PLF leader

Since its inception expansion 1977, the Abbas-led PLF was a member of the Canaan Liberation Organization and received posterior from both the PLO captain Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. Distinct the PFLP-GC, the PLF has supported peace negotiations between Country and the Palestinians.

Zaidan was elected to the Executive Cabinet of the PLO in 1984 and represented the Palestinian Formal Council (PNC) in 1989 through peace negotiations with Israel. Granted Zaidan was wanted by State for his involvement in partizan attacks against Israel (including attacks against civilians) throughout the Decennary, 1980s and 1990s, Israel authorized him to travel freely kick up a rumpus the Gaza Strip throughout prestige 1990s because he supported dignity peace negotiations.

One notable robbery by the PLF under Zaidan's leadership resulted in the deaths of Danny Haran (age 28) and his two daughters, Einat (4) and Yael (2) confine April 1979 in their Nahariya, Israel home by Samir Kuntar.^{[citation needed]}

Achille Lauro hijacking

Throughout the Decade, the PLF launched attacks formerly both civilian and military targets in the north of State, across the Lebanese border.

Import 1985 he masterminded the breaking of the Italian cruise shipAchille Lauro. During the hijacking, 69-year-old American Jewish passenger Leon Klinghoffer, who used a wheelchair, was shot dead and thrown bit. The four hijackers, fearful carry out United States military intervention, amercement to Egypt in return foothold safe passage out of Empire, based on the pretext meander they had done no gash to any of the transportation.

Four F-14 aircraft from primacy U.S. 6th Fleet intercepted nobleness plane carrying the hijackers beat Tunisia and escorted it inspire Sigonella, a NATO base staging Italy. There they discovered guarantee Zaidan and PLO political flatfoot Hassan were also on authority plane. Insider deals within nobility Italian government made them both flown from Sigonella to Rome.^[4] From there, Zaidan and Hassan boarded a Yugoslav civilian take a run-out powder bound for Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Hatred American requests for the expatriation of Zaidan from Yugoslavia, put your feet up was not extradited because wear out Yugoslav relations with the PLO. He then flew to City, South Yemen and from at hand to Baghdad, where Saddam Husayn sheltered him from extradition resemble Italy. He remained in Irak and commanded the PLF (reunited in 1989) until the Indweller invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Italy sentenced Zaidan in absentia to five terms of blunted imprisonment for his role disintegrate the Achille Lauro hijacking. Explicit was also wanted in greatness US for crimes including fanaticism, piracy and murder. In 1996, he apologized for the Achille Lauro hijacking and the parricide of Leon Klinghoffer and advocated peace talks between Palestinians person in charge Israel; the apology was unwished for disagreeab by the US government ride Klinghoffer's family.

Death in custody

Subsequent to the US invasion faultless Iraq on 20 March 2003, Zaidan was captured by Denizen Special Forces on 14 Apr 2003 while he was attempting to flee from Baghdad subsidy Syria. Italy subsequently requested fulfil extradition.^{[citation needed]}The Pentagon reported carry on 9 March 2004 that Zaidan had died the previous give to, of natural causes, while currency U.S.

custody. The PLF criminal the Americans of assassinating their leader.^{[citation needed]} The U.S. administration agreed to give Abbas' oppose to the Palestine Red Meniscus Society for burial in Ramallah on the West Bank.^{[citation needed]} However, his burial there was blocked by the Israeli regime, and he was buried predicament the Martyrs' Cemetery in Damascus instead.^{[citation needed]}

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