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...part, Abu Daoud in interviews in Algeria blamed his arrest on "Zionists" within the French police who were opposed to the "official French position regarding the rights of the Palestinian people." He boasted that he would soon return to fighting Israel and Zionism-after a brief vacation in Algeria. "The Israelis are looking to kill all the Palestinians," he said. "If they want to kill me, then they want to kill a revolutionary, not a terrorist...
...name is Mohammed Daoud Mohammed Auda. I was born in Siluan near Jerusalem on the 16th of May, 1937. I have one wife and, by her, six children. I have Jordanian citizenship...
...spoke last week's mysterious prisoner of Paris in an interview on Jordanian television in 1973. The broadcast was an intelligence officer's delight. Abu Daoud, who had been captured by the Jordanians after attempting to infiltrate Amman at the head of an Al-Fatah commando team, rambled on for nearly three hours, spilling hitherto unknown details of P.L.O. terrorist plots and the inner workings of the guerrilla organization. Why had Abu Daoud been so candid? Had he been tortured into cooperation? Was he, as the Israelis still suspect, a Jordanian double agent? And why, after his release...
...knows for sure, but then not very much about any aspect of Abu Daoud's murky life is certain. He was indeed born near Jerusalem, and his family still lives in Siluan. After high school, he taught math and physics in Jordan and joined the outlawed Communist Party. He later taught in Saudi Arabia, studied law and worked for the Kuwaiti Ministry of Justice. In 1965 he joined the fledgling Fatah, taking the code name Abu Daoud (which means father of David, his oldest son), and became a protege of Abu lyad, Fatah's second-ranking leader after...
...Daoud claims to have founded the group's intelligence department, called El Rasd (the Observation), in 1968; he was deeply involved in Fatah preparations to wrest control of Jordan from King Hussein in September 1970. Abu Daoud was shot in the leg in one of the early battles of that Black September and spent the rest of the war recuperating in Damascus. After his recovery, he was sent on missions to Europe, North Korea and China to seek support for the Palestinian cause...