Ali Hassan Salameh
Ali Hassan Salameh (* 1940 ?; † January 22, 1979 in Beirut , Lebanon ; Arabic علي حسن سلامة, DMG ʿAlī Ḥasan Salāma ) was a Fatah functionary and the head of the terrorist group Black September , which, among other things, carried out the 1972 Olympic attack in Munich . His code name was Abu Hassan, he was educated in Germany and obtained his military skills in Cairo and Moscow . The Force 17 was established by him.
Life
Salameh was the son of a wealthy family and grew up in Qula , Palestine . His father, Sheikh Hassan Salameh , was killed in 1948 in a skirmish with Israelis north of Jaffa . He received his engineering training at the American University of Beirut . His nickname, the "Red Prince", is due to his noticeably high standard of living with fast cars, beautiful women and a lot of money. He made the Miss Universe of 1971, Georgina Rizk , his wife.
On July 21, 1973, mistakenly believing that they had located and identified Salameh in Lillehammer , the Mossad attempted to kill him in retaliation for the Olympic attack. However, the Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchiki, who had been mistaken for Salameh, was shot dead on the street in the presence of his pregnant wife (see Lillehammer affair ). In another attack on January 22, 1979, Salameh was killed by Mossad agents in the Lebanese capital Beirut with a remote-controlled car bomb . Four of his bodyguards and four bystanders were also killed.
According to some sources, Salameh operated as a secret contact between the PLO and the CIA from 1970 onwards . At the end of 1973 he negotiated an agreement with his commanding officer Robert Ames after he had guaranteed the Americans protection from assassinations and in return demanded financial and political support. The connection is said to have lasted until his death.
literature
- Michael Bar-Zohar ; Eitan Haber: The Quest for The Red Prince: The Israeli Hunt for Ali Hassen Salameh the PLO leader who masterminded the Olympic Games Massacre . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983 ISBN 0-297-78063-8
Web links
- Death of a Terrorist. In: Time . 5th February 1979.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tim Weiner: CIA: The Whole Story . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-10-091070-2 , p. 512.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salameh, Ali Hassan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Salāma, ʿAlī Hasan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Palestinian head of the Black September terrorist group |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1940 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1979 |
| Place of death | Beirut , Lebanon |