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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The PFLP does not view the Palestinian struggle as a religious one, seeing it instead as a broader revolution against Western imperialism. The group earned a reputation for spectacular international attacks, including airline hijackings that have killed at least 20 US citizens.
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين - القيادة العامة) is a Palestinian nationalist and Marxist organization, backed by Syria and Iran. I...
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Lefist Palestinian nationalist group that formed after the Six Day War of 1967 and pioneered terrorist strategies in the early 1970s. Once a key player in Palestinian politics,the PFLP lost influence in the 1990s and was sidelined as Yasir Arafat established the Palestinian Authority.
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CDI Terrorism Project - In the Spotlight: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), by Sofia Aldape, CDI Research Assistant ... The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) traces its roots to the Arab National Movement (ANM).
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But the secular nature of the PFLP was its undoing. Over time, Islam became much more fundamentalist with the jihadists carrying the day. So the PFLP was forced to merge into Yasser Arafat's PLO in late 1968, becoming the organization's second largest faction behind Fatah.
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