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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (view source)
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, 06:37, August 3, 20201970 hijacking
-The group was responsible for a suicide bombing Christmas Day 2003, in which four people were killed and more than twenty were wounded.
-The group was responsible for a suicide bombing Christmas Day 2003, in which four people were killed and more than twenty were wounded.
-The PFLP and its current leader, Ahmed Jibril, were mentioned in the 2005 United Nations report into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, for allegedly assisting senior Lebanese security officials who were implicated in the 2004 car bombing that killed Hariri.</ref>.
-The PFLP and its current leader, Ahmed Jibril, were mentioned in the 2005 United Nations report into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, for allegedly assisting senior Lebanese security officials who were implicated in the 2004 car bombing that killed Hariri.</ref>.
Hijacking of various airlines: September 6, 1970 by PFLP and other joined groups<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R000901960026-3.pdf& Terrorist Hijacking. CIA.gov]</ref><ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/hijacked-1970-hijackings/ 1970 Hijackings, Simultaneous Hijackings, September 6, 1970 - American Experience, PBS]</ref><ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/people-involved-and-affected/ The People Involved and Affected, September 6, 1970 - American Experience, PBS]</ref><ref>[https://www.ict.org.il/Article/948/between-two-septembers#gsc.tab=0 Between Two Septembers: From the bargaining chip of Sept. 1970 to a strategic agent of Sept. 2001. 11/06/2006 | by Avihai, Hillel (Dr.) - ICT]</ref>
Some 2 weeks later, Reuters, NYTimes reported:
''Habash was reported to have been in North Korea on an unexplained mission before his men succeeded in hijacking four Western air liners two weeks ago. The Popular Front is still holding 54 or 55 airliner hostages somewhere in Jordan''<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/23/archives/jordanians-put-a-price-on-the-head-of-habash.html Jordanians Put a Price On the Head of Habash. Sept. 23, 1970, The New York Times]</ref>.
In 1976, the PFLP along with the German terrorist ''Revolutionary Cells'' hijacked an Air France flight to [[Entebbe]], [[Uganda]], where they singled out the Jewish passengers in a plot to murder them.<ref>Stephen E. Atkins, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=b8k4rEPvq_8C Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist groups]'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004) ISBN 0313324859, p. 277</ref>
In 1976, the PFLP along with the German terrorist ''Revolutionary Cells'' hijacked an Air France flight to [[Entebbe]], [[Uganda]], where they singled out the Jewish passengers in a plot to murder them.<ref>Stephen E. Atkins, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=b8k4rEPvq_8C Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist groups]'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004) ISBN 0313324859, p. 277</ref>