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He goes by a variety of names: Abul Abbas, Mohammed Abbas, Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, Abu Khaled. He has been an ally and enemy of Syria's, a colleague and critic--simultaneously--of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat's. Until a few weeks ago he was one of the...
The P.L.F. split in 1983, and again Syria was the cause. After being expelled from Beirut following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, P.L.O. guerrillas loyal to Arafat settled in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli. Rival factions backed by Syria staged an armed attack on them. Part of...
On whether he lied about when the hijackers left Egypt. I learned that the place where these people were going to (another destination to which the hijackers had been sent before they left for Tunis) had no responsible man from the P.L.O. to receive them. I am not going to...
On the same day, however, WAFA, the Palestinian press service based in Tunis, reported that P.L.O. Chairman Arafat had sent Craxi a message warning him against turning Abbas over to the U.S. If the Italians did so, Arafat reportedly said, "uncontrollable reactions could result, as happened in the affair of...
The fragmentation of the P.L.O. in the wake of its 1982 expulsion from Lebanon may help explain the increased violence. Now dispersed from North Africa to the Persian Gulf, the P.L.O.'s young guerrillas are becoming bored after three years of relative inactivity. Says a P.L.O. expert in Tunis: "Launching...