PFLP-GC Stands For Syrian Mercenaries

The PFLP-GC (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command) was founded in 1968 as a splinter of the PFLP; the group believed in militancy, not political agreements. Its founder, Ahmed Jibril, was a Palestinian refugee who adopted Syrian nationality and had become, essentially a Syrian puppet. Jibril was also the leader of al-Saiqa (a pro-Syrian Palestinian group), in the 1970s and 1980s, the second largest group within the PLO. Until the War of the Camps, in which the PFLP-GC fought alongside Syria and helped kill hundreds of Palestinians, Jibril had a strong following amongst many Palestinians. In the 80s Jibril even sold his services to the likes of Mumar Kadafi during the attack on Pan Am 103.

In the 1970s and 1980s Jibril's staged a number of remarkable attacks against Israel. In 1978 one of Jibril's attacks, actually the first Palestinian suicide bombing, 18 people (including 9 children) were killed. This attack pushed the Israelis to invade Lebanon up to the Litani River. In 1987 the PFLP-GC launched an attack on the Israeli Army using hang gliders, 6 Israeli soldiers were killed. That attack was a great psychological boost to Palestinians who later rioted against Israeli authority during the Intifadah.

Currently the PFLP-GC maintains training camps and a strong presence in the Palestinian refugee camps and in the Bekka Valley. Even though Marxism has long passed its vogue, the General Command still continues its violence today, only its for Damascus.

Track Record of the PFLP-GCs Attacks For Syria:

• the General Command is a key source of arms and training for other Syrian backed terrorist outfits in Israel, namely Hamas and the PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad). In 2001 it was suspected that the PFLP-GC sent a ship loaded with explosives, ammunition, and arms to the Gaza strip. The ship was intercepted by the Israeli Navy before it arrived.


• In 2002 the PFLP-GC launched katusyia rockets into Israel after former secretary of state Colin Powell's Middle East visit, snubbed Syria.


• October 2005, the Lebanese Army surrounds PFLP-GC encampments in the Bekkaa following acusations that the group was smuggling weapons in from Syria.


• In November of 2006 Jibril's organization stole a car used in the assassination of Lebanese politician, Pierre Gemayel.


• Currently in Nahr al Bared refugee camp the PFLP-GC fights alongside Fatah al Islam against the Lebanese Army. To quote TIME, "Lebanese security officials also maintain that pro-Syrian Palestinians of the PFLP-GC have taken sides with Fatah al-Islam in Nahr al-Bared." Only recently did the PFLP-GCs fighters start surrendering to the Lebanese Army.

One this is for certain, as long as the PLFP-GC is around, it will continue to be a Syrian proxy group.

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