Salah Khalaf
Salah Mesbah Khalaf ( Arabic صلاح خلف Salah Chalaf , DMG Ṣalāḥ Ḫalaf ), also known as Abu Ijad (أبو إياد Abu Iyad , DMG Abū Iyād ; * 1933 in Jaffa ; † January 14, 1991 in Tunis ) was 1991 second chief and head of espionage of the PLO and the second oldest official representative of Fatah after Yasser Arafat .
Salah Khalaf fled Jaffa to the Gaza Strip with his family on May 13, 1948 . In 1951 he went to study in Cairo, where he enrolled at al-Azhar University . There he sympathized with the Muslim Brotherhood , but never became a member because he felt its ideology to be intolerant. That same year he met Yasser Arafat at al-Azhar University during a meeting of the Association of Palestinian Students. In 1952 they were elected to the board of directors of the Association of Palestinian Students. In 1958 he founded Fatah together with Arafat and other Palestinian Arabs in Kuwait .
Khalaf turned against Arafat's alliance with Saddam Hussein and remained neutral during the Gulf War of 1990–1991 . He was murdered in Tunis by an Abu Nidal squad. He was suspected by Israel and the United States of creating the Black September organization .
literature
(Co-Author: Eric Rouleau) Home or Death - The Palestinians' Struggle for Freedom . Dusseldorf 1979, ISBN 343011005 X .
credentials
- ↑ Abu Ijad (co-author: Eric Rouleau): Home or Death - The Palestinians' struggle for freedom . Düsseldorf 1979, p. 42.
- ↑ a b Said K. Aburish: From Defender to Dictator . Bloomsbury Publishing, New York 1998, ISBN 1-58234-049-8 .
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| SURNAME | Khalaf, Salah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Khalaf, Salah Mesbah (full name); Abu Iyad; صلاح خلف (Arabic); إياد, أبو (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | second chief and head of espionage of the PLO and the second oldest official representative of Fatah after Yasser Arafat in 1991 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jaffa |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1991 |
| Place of death | Tunis |