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...1960s Abbas joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, then and now a Marxist-oriented group headed by George Habash, who is still a power in the P.L.O. Finding the P.F.L.P. not radical enough, Abbas shortly after followed a former Syrian army officer named Ahmed Jabril into a splinter group calling itself the P.F.L.P.-General Command, which also still exists as part of the P.L.O. After being expelled from Jordan in 1971, the P.L.O., and Abbas with it, set up shop in Lebanon and grew into a major power, which, however, became enmeshed in the Lebanese civil...
...Israeli target was the headquarters of pro-Syrian factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization that oppose the leadership of Chairman Yasser Arafat. Throughout the week, in fierce exchanges between Arafat supporters and Syrian-backed rebel groups led by Abu Mousa and Ahmed Jabril, 240 people were killed and 550 wounded in two Palestinian refugee camps outside the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli. Arafat, who had been in the Tripoli area for several weeks with an estimated 8,000 troops loyal to him, accused Syria of massing 25,000 men and heavy armaments around the camps. He told a Beirut...
...composed of a handful of terrorist organizations that were once quite effective, has been a direct consequence of a civil war in which only semi-traditional military organizations could have been functional. Tanks and trained infantry were provided by the PLO; terrorist tactics were of no use. Thus, Jabril (who has been jailed by the PLO and accused of collaborating with the Syrians) and George Habash, two of the most prominent leaders of the "rejection front" have lost much of their influence among the Palestinians. Presently, the only group that poses a threat to Arafat is the Popular Democratic Front...
...issue. Some kind of understanding would protect moderates like Sadat from attacks by radical Arabs, notably the hard-lining Palestinians. In Tripoli last week, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is feuding with Sadat, met with George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Ahmed Jabril of the P.F.L.P.-General Command, both of whom are far to the left of Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat. With Gaddafi, Habash and Jabril they denounced Sadat's disengagement policy, insisted that Suez was properly the "canal of the Arabs" and not Egypt's alone, and warned...