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==Perpetrators==

==Perpetrators==

The main forces have been by brigades from the Muslim Lebanese ''al-Murabitun'' militia, the ''Palestinian Liberation Army''<ref>Some sources name the ''Palestine Liberation Army'' Ayn Jalout brigade armed by [[Egypt]] and the ''Battle of al-Qādisiyyah'' brigade from [[Iraq]]. [http://www.freelebanon.org/articles/a381.htm This page] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060114230542/http://www.freelebanon.org/articles/a381.htm this page] also mentions the Yarmouk brigade, set up by Syria.</ref> and as-[[Sa'iqa]], as well as other members of other groups, including [[Fatah]]. Some sources also mention the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP), the ''Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine'' (DFLP) among the attackers. There are reports that PLO forces were additionally joined by militiamen from [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], [[Libya]],<ref name="Davis1990">{{cite book|author=Brian Lee Davis|title=Qaddafi, Terrorism, and the Origins of the U.S. Attack on Libya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YQzJHVNUkt4C&pg=PA11|access-date=July 27, 2013|date=January 1, 1990|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-275-93302-9|page=11}}</ref> [[Iran]], [[Pakistan]] and [[Afghanistan]], and possibly even [[Japanese Red Army]] terrorists who were then undergoing training by the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] in Lebanon.<ref>Nisan, 2003, p. 41.</ref>

The main forces have been by brigades from the Muslim Lebanese ''al-Murabitun'' militia, the ''Palestinian Liberation Army''<ref>Some sources name the ''Palestine Liberation Army'' Ayn Jalout brigade armed by [[Egypt]] and the ''Battle of al-Qādisiyyah'' brigade from [[Iraq]]. [http://www.freelebanon.org/articles/a381.htm This page] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060114230542/http://www.freelebanon.org/articles/a381.htm this page] also mentions the Yarmouk brigade, set up by Syria.</ref> and [[as-Sa'iqa]], as well as other members of other groups, including [[Fatah]]. Some sources also mention the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP), the ''Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine'' (DFLP) among the attackers. There are reports that PLO forces were additionally joined by militiamen from [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], [[Libya]],<ref name="Davis1990">{{cite book|author=Brian Lee Davis|title=Qaddafi, Terrorism, and the Origins of the U.S. Attack on Libya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YQzJHVNUkt4C&pg=PA11|access-date=July 27, 2013|date=January 1, 1990|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-275-93302-9|page=11}}</ref> [[Iran]], [[Pakistan]] and [[Afghanistan]], and possibly even [[Japanese Red Army]] terrorists who were then undergoing training by the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] in Lebanon.<ref>Nisan, 2003, p. 41.</ref>

Some mention the LMM alongside the PLO.

Some mention the LMM alongside the PLO.

<ref name=burke/>(LMM a leftist, pan-Arabist and Syrian nationalist parties and organizations active during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War, which supported the [[PLO]], some of its members evolved further on into Islamic fundamentalists).

<ref name=burke/>(LMM a leftist, pan-Arabist and Syrian nationalist parties and organizations active during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War, which supported the [[PLO]], some of its members evolved further on into Islamic fundamentalists).