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Bassam Abu Sharif (born 1946) is a former senior adviser to the late Yasser Arafat and press officer of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).1 Formerly a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Abu Sharif was dubbed the "face of terror" by Time Magazine for his role in the Dawson's Field hijackings in 1970, when the PFLP hijacked Pan Am , Swissair , and TWA flights — a fourth pair of hijackers on an El Al flight were overpowered by security guards and passengers — and blew them up in the Jordanian desert, triggering King Hussein 's expulsion of the PLO from Jordan, which became known as Black September . He lost four fingers, and was left deaf in one ear and blind in one eye, when a bomb exploded in his hands in Beirut , Lebanon in 1972. The assassination attempt was carried out by Mossad who hid the explosives in the book The Memoirs of Che Guevara , and sent the book to Sharif. Within PFLP, he began to favor a reduced emphasis on armed struggle and closer cooperation with Fatah, the dominant PLO faction. As a result, he was removed from the PFLP Politburo in 1981, and demoted running external relations. In drawing closer to Fatah leader Yasir Arafat and meeting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, he was expelled from the PFLP in 1987. In a non-partisan role, he became an advisor to Arafat and was able to float some peace proposals based on a two-state solution and preparing Palestinians for the compromises made in Oslo. He returned to Ramallah in 1996 as a presidential advisor and often writing unofficial statements of the Palestinian position in the peace process. In 1995, he co-authored the book Best of Enemies with Uzi Mahnaimi, an Israeli intelligence officer. Writing in the Palestinian newspaper al-Quds in April 2005, Abu Sharif called for a "popular peaceful uprising" of Palestinians through massive nonviolent resistance to prevent Israel from annexing any additional land in the West Bank . Bassam Abu Sharif has two children, Omar and Karma, from a previous marriage.2
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Bassam Abu Sharif (born 1946) is a former senior adviser to Yasser Arafat and leading cadre of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).He was previously a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). A Marxist and an admirer of Mao Zedong and Che Guevara , Abu Sharif, then a member of the PFLP, was dubbed the " face of terror " by Time Magazine for his role in the Dawson's Field hijackings in 1970, when the PFLP hijacked Pan Am , Swissair , and TWA flights — a fourth pair of hijackers on an El Al flight were overpowered by security guards and passengers — and blew them up in the Jordanian desert, triggering King Hussein 's expulsion of the PLO from Jordan, which became known as Black September .
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Bassam Abu Sharif (centre, with glasses), 1989) Bassam Abu Sharif ( ; born 1946) is a former senior adviser to Yasser Arafat and leading cadre of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He was previously a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). A Marxist and an admirer of Mao Zedong and Che Guevara , Abu Sharif, then a member of the PFLP, was dubbed the " face of terror " by Time Magazine for his role in the Dawson's Field hijackings in 1970, when the PFLP hijacked Pan Am , Swissair , and TWA flights and blew them up in the Jordanian desert, triggering King Hussein 's expulsion of the PLO from Jordan, which became known as Black September . A fourth pair of hijackers on an El Al flight were overpowered by security guards and passengers.
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Palestinian politician (born 1946) Bassam Abu Sharif ( ; born 1946 in Jerusalem ) is a former senior adviser to Yasser Arafat and leading cadre of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He was previously a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). A Marxist and an admirer of Mao Zedong and Che Guevara , Abu Sharif, then a member of the PFLP, was dubbed the "face of terror" by Time magazine for his role in the Dawson's Field hijackings in 1970, when the PFLP hijacked Pan Am , Swissair , and TWA flights and blew them up in the Jordanian desert, triggering King Hussein 's expulsion of the PLO from Jordan, which became known as Black September . A fourth pair of hijackers on an El Al flight were overpowered by security guards and passengers.
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Palestinian politician (born 1946) Bassam Abu Sharif ( Arabic : بسام أبو شريف ; born August 9, 1946 in Jerusalem ) is a former senior adviser to Yasser Arafat and leading cadre of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He was previously a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). A Marxist and an admirer of Mao Zedong and Che Guevara , Abu Sharif, then a member of the PFLP, was dubbed the "face of terror" by Time magazine for his role in the Dawson's Field hijackings in 1970, when the PFLP hijacked Pan Am , Swissair , and TWA flights and blew them up in the Jordanian desert, triggering King Hussein 's expulsion of the PLO from Jordan, which became known as Black September . A fourth pair of hijackers on an El Al flight were overpowered by security guards and passengers.
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former senior adviser to the late yasser arafat and press officer of the palestine liberation organization
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former senior adviser to yasser arafat and leading cadre of the palestine liberation organization
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