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...Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian militant groups and Iran. Syria has warmed to the Obama Administration's offer of engagement and has welcomed a series of U.S. diplomatic delegations for talks about peace with Israel and cooperation with American goals in Iraq. "I believe Obama is working hard for peace," Muhammad Habash, a Syrian member of parliament and the director of the Islamic Studies Center in Damascus, told the Wall Street Journal. "We in Syria believe that Obama's initiatives have been suitable and that Syria is now witnessing important steps to correct the relationship with the United States. I believe everyone...
...least the world is talking about us now," said George Habash, a pediatrician who in 1967 rejected Yasser Arafat's PLO to found the Marxist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Habash pioneered modern terrorist tactics in the war on Israel. During the '60s and '70s, his group orchestrated such high-profile attacks as the hijacking of an El Al plane in 1968, the bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket in 1969 and the gunning down of 27 people at Israel's Lod Airport...
...Palestinian groups based in Syria. Says Arafat's deputy Khalil Wazir, who is better known by his nom de guerre, Abu Jihad: "All fighters from all factions are fighting in the same trench for survival." In recent weeks Abu Jihad has met with rival Palestinian Leader George Habash in Moscow, Prague and Algiers in an effort to achieve a reconciliation among the Palestinian groups. The Soviet Union has strongly backed the idea...
Arafat moved Tuesday to shore up his support by meeting with Egypt?s President Hosni Mubarak and by extending an olive branch to George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh, leaders of radical Damascus-based Palestinian guerrilla factions opposed to the peace process. Syria has ordered Habash and Hawatmeh to end their armed struggle as it prepares to negotiate its own peace deal with Israel, and Arafat hopes that reconciling with them will isolate the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement, whose terrorist suicide attacks are the main threat to the peace process. But Hamas may not be feeling any urgency to strike. "They...
...Unless Habash is very ill, said the President, "his stay will be extremely brief." And so it was. After doctors said the guerrilla leader was unable to talk, a magistrate who had ordered police to hold him for questioning rescinded the order. At that, Habash decided to skip further treatment. He hurried to Orly airport on Saturday and flew back to his home in Tunis...