Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners
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Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners ( FLLF ) ( ), or Front pour la Libération du Liban des Étrangers (FLLE) in French , was a formerly obscure underground militant organization that surfaced in Lebanon at the early 1980s.1 According to Ronen Bergman , the front was a "terrorist organization that Israel ran in Lebanon in the years 1980-83" which was set up on the orders of Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan , who instructed Israeli General Avigdor Ben-Gal , together with Meir Dagan , to create and oversee the group in the wake of the 1979 Nahariya attack .
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The so-called ‘ Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners’ – FLLF ( Arabic : Jabhat al-Tahrir al-Gharib fi Lubnan ) or Front pour la Liberátion du Liban des Étrangers (FLLE) in French was an obscure underground terrorist organization that surfaced in the early 1980s. Very little is known about the FLLF, except it was formed in 1977 at East Beirut and had less than 200 members, suspected of being trained and financed by the MOSSAD , Israel ’s Intelligence Service. The group made its début in July 1981 with a bomb attack on the Rue Fakhani PLO offices in West Beirut , though it only reached the peak of its activities later in September by unleashing a spate of car-bombings that created havoc in the Muslim quarters of Sidon , Tripoli , Chekka and west Beirut until February 1982 . In the latter case, the car-bombs were combined with a powerful command-detonated explosive device planted at a packed Cinema – followed suit by another in early October – that left 300 civilians dead or wounded. The group halted its operations just prior to the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon , though some observers believe that they remained active as late as mid-1983, but nothing was heard of them afterwards.
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The Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners – FLLF ( Arabic : جبهة تحرير لبنان من الغرباء transliterated as Jabhat Tahrir Lubnan min al Ghurabaa' ) or Front pour la Liberátion du Liban des Étrangers (FLLE) in French was an obscure underground terrorist organization that surfaced in Lebanon at the early 1980s.
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The Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners – FLLF ( Arabic : جبهة تحرير لبنان من الغرباء transliterated as Jabhat Tahrir Lubnan min al Ghurabaa ) or Front pour la Libération du Liban des Étrangers (FLLE) in French , was a formerly obscure underground terrorist organization that surfaced in Lebanon at the early 1980s. The group was originally set up on the orders of Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan , who instructed Israeli General Avigdor Ben-Gal to create the group in the wake of the 1979 Nahariya attack .
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Israeli Terrorist Organization based in Lebanon The Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners ( FLLF ) ( Arabic : جبهة تحرير لبنان من الغرباء , romanized : Jabhat Tahrir Lubnan min al-Ghuraba' ), or Front pour la Libération du Liban des Étrangers (FLLE) in French , was a formerly Israeli-backed obscure underground terrorist organization that surfaced in Lebanon at the early 1980s. According to Ronen Bergman , the front was a "terrorist organization that Israel ran in Lebanon in the years 1980-83" which was set up on the orders of Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan , who instructed Israeli General Avigdor Ben-Gal , together with Meir Dagan , to create and oversee the group in the wake of the 1979 Nahariya attack .
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