In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian leader of the popular front for the liberation of palestine 's armed wing”. Today it says “palestinian militant and founding leader of the popular front for the liberation of palestine”. A word that once opened this article now sits 33% of the way down it.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Wadie Haddad ( Arabic : وديع حداد ; 1927 – 28 March 1978), also known by the kunya Abu Hani ( أبو هاني ), was a Palestinian militant and leading figure of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He organized several hijackings of international civilian passenger aircraft in the 1960s and 1970s, the most infamous of which was the Entebbe hijacking , when Palestinian and German militants under his command held 106 hostages – primarily Israeli Jews , although four non-Israeli Jews were also held captive – on a flight from Israel to France after diverting it to Entebbe , Uganda. Many non-Israeli Jews like Julie Aouzerate, Michel Cojot and Peter and Nancy Rabinowitz remained in the original room."
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Abu Hani , was a Palestinian Christian , who in the 1960s and 1970s was responsible for several attacks against Israel . He is believed to have been assassinated by the Mossad .
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The opening as it stood in 2015 2 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Wadie Haddad ( ; 1927 – 28 March 1978), also known as Abu Hani , was a Palestinian leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 's armed wing.He was responsible for organizing several civilian airplane hijackings in support of the Palestinian cause in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Palestinian leader in the PFLP Wadie Haddad ( ; 1927 – 28 March 1978), also known as Abu Hani , was a Palestinian leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 's armed wing. He was responsible for organizing several civilian airplane hijackings in support of the Palestinian cause in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Palestinian leader in the PFLP (1927-1978) Wadie Haddad ( ; 1927 – 28 March 1978), also known as Abu Hani , was a Palestinian leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 's armed wing. He was responsible for organizing several civilian airplane hijackings in support of the Palestinian cause in the 1960s and 1970s, the most infamous of which being the Entebbe plane hijacking , during which militants under his command took 106 hostages.
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Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian leader of the popular front for the liberation of palestine 's armed wing”. Today it says “palestinian militant and founding leader of the popular front for the liberation of palestine”. A word that once opened this article now sits 33% of the way down it. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
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Then
palestinian leader of the popular front for the liberation of palestine 's armed wing
Now
palestinian militant and founding leader of the popular front for the liberation of palestine
Where the word went
It left the opening. It did not leave the article. Wikipedia moved it down the page, where a reader arriving from a search result will not reach it.
“hostage” was in the opening on October 6, 2023. Today 1 remain, 33% of the way down the article.
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