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''The Pro - Syrian Forces * (mostly Palestinians) : (a) As - Saiqa - - the second largest component of the Plo, led by Zuheir Mohsen, the head of the military department of the PLO.''</ref> | ''The Pro - Syrian Forces * (mostly Palestinians) : (a) As - Saiqa - - the second largest component of the Plo, led by Zuheir Mohsen, the head of the military department of the PLO.''</ref> | ||
| − | Zuheir Mohsen is known as the "butcher of Damour",<ref>[https://www.ict.org.il/Article/1036/PLO-Policy-towards-the-Christian-Community-during-the-Civil-War PLO Policy towards the Christian Community during the Civil War in Lebanon], ICT, May 7, 2008.</ref><ref>Jillian Becker (2014). "The | + | Zuheir Mohsen is known as the "butcher of Damour",<ref>[https://www.ict.org.il/Article/1036/PLO-Policy-towards-the-Christian-Community-during-the-Civil-War PLO Policy towards the Christian Community during the Civil War in Lebanon], ICT, May 7, 2008.</ref><ref>Jillian Becker (2014). "The PLO." [https://books.google.com/books?id=-7kvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA155 p. 155]. |
''The commander of the combined forces which descended on Damour on 23 January 1976 was Zuhayr Muhsin, chief of al-Sa'iqa, known since then throughout Christian Lebanon as 'the Butcher of Damour'. He was assassinated on 15 July 1979 at Cannes in the South of France.''</ref> | ''The commander of the combined forces which descended on Damour on 23 January 1976 was Zuhayr Muhsin, chief of al-Sa'iqa, known since then throughout Christian Lebanon as 'the Butcher of Damour'. He was assassinated on 15 July 1979 at Cannes in the South of France.''</ref> | ||
<ref>Prof. Murray Kahl, [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/786 Yasir Arafat and the Christians of Lebanon] INN, 13 January 2002. ''Although the main 'Butcher of Damour,' Saiqa commander Zuhayr Muhsin, was assassinated in Cannes, France in 1979, the PLO leader whose legions were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Christians in Lebanon, Yasser Arafat, is still alive to bemoan the fact that Israel prevented him from attending Christmas services in Bethlehem.''</ref> as in the [[Damour massacre]]. | <ref>Prof. Murray Kahl, [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/786 Yasir Arafat and the Christians of Lebanon] INN, 13 January 2002. ''Although the main 'Butcher of Damour,' Saiqa commander Zuhayr Muhsin, was assassinated in Cannes, France in 1979, the PLO leader whose legions were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Christians in Lebanon, Yasser Arafat, is still alive to bemoan the fact that Israel prevented him from attending Christmas services in Bethlehem.''</ref> as in the [[Damour massacre]]. | ||
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Al Saaka, or al Sa'iqa (also transcribed as al-Saiqa, as-Saiqa, Al-Sa'iqa), Lightning, Storm, Thunderbolt, Vanguard for the Popular Liberation War, it was formed c. 1966.
Al-Saiqa was a Marxist Muslim Palestinian terror club founded by Syrian Ba'athists. It served as a pan-Arab, pan-Islamic, Syrian-backed movement within the Palestinian Liberation Organization - the PLO.
Equally as most Palestinian terrorist groups, al-Saiqa's goal was to destroy Israel and establish an Arab/Islamic/Communist state in its place.
In 1976, Al-Saiqa was expelled from the PLO. It was used thereafter by the Syrian Assad regime. It was against the Madrid conference and Oslo accords between Israel and the PLO.[1]
Zuheir Mohsen
In the 1970s, its leader was Palestinian Zuheir Mohsen, the head of the military department of the PLO. [2]
Zuheir Mohsen is known as the "butcher of Damour",[3][4] [5] as in the Damour massacre.
He was assassinated in July, 1979.[6]
Among Al Saaka's atrocities:
References
- ↑ al Sa'iqa Terrorist Groups | TRAC
- ↑ Assadour Garmirian (1979). "International Newscasting in Lebanon. Coverage of the 1975-76 Civil War". Volume 1. p. 37 The Pro - Syrian Forces * (mostly Palestinians) : (a) As - Saiqa - - the second largest component of the Plo, led by Zuheir Mohsen, the head of the military department of the PLO.
- ↑ PLO Policy towards the Christian Community during the Civil War in Lebanon, ICT, May 7, 2008.
- ↑ Jillian Becker (2014). "The PLO." p. 155. The commander of the combined forces which descended on Damour on 23 January 1976 was Zuhayr Muhsin, chief of al-Sa'iqa, known since then throughout Christian Lebanon as 'the Butcher of Damour'. He was assassinated on 15 July 1979 at Cannes in the South of France.
- ↑ Prof. Murray Kahl, Yasir Arafat and the Christians of Lebanon INN, 13 January 2002. Although the main 'Butcher of Damour,' Saiqa commander Zuhayr Muhsin, was assassinated in Cannes, France in 1979, the PLO leader whose legions were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Christians in Lebanon, Yasser Arafat, is still alive to bemoan the fact that Israel prevented him from attending Christmas services in Bethlehem.
- ↑ A Leader of P.L.O. Shot in France, The New York Times, July 26, 1979. CANNES, France, July 25 (AP) — Zuheir Mohsen, military operations chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the Syrian‐supported As saiqa guerrilla faction, was shot in the head last night as he approached the door of an apartment in this Riviera city, the police reported oday.