This article is about Palestinian field commander. For the Palestinian intelligence chief and senior official also known as Abu Iyad, see Salah Khalaf.
Abu Ali Iyad وليد أحمد نمر
Portrait of Abu Ali Iyad, published by PLO in 1971
Birth name
Walid Ahmad Nimr
Nickname(s)
Abu Ali Iyad
Born
1934 Qalqilyah, Mandatory Palestine
Died
(1971-07-23)July 23, 1971 Ajlun-Jerash, Jordan
Allegiance
Fatah/Palestine Liberation Organization
Service/branch
Al-Assifa
Rank
Commander
Battles/wars
War of Attrition
Battle of Karameh
Jordanian Civil War
Ajlun offensive †
Walid Ahmad Nimr (Arabic: وليد أحمد نمر; 1934 – July 23, 1971), better known by his nom de guerreAbu Ali Iyad (Arabic: أبو علي إياد), was a senior Palestinian field commander based in Syria and Jordan during the 1960s and early 1970s.
After a career of teaching in the West Bank, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Algeria, Abu Ali Iyad was recruited into the paramilitary group, Fatah, by Khalil al-Wazir in 1964 after graduating from an Algerian military training course. A year later, he became one of Fatah's first leaders in Syria along with al-Wazir and Yasser Arafat. During his time there, Abu Ali Iyad gained a position on the group's top political body, supervised its main guerrilla training camp in Daraa and set up a military intelligence headquarters.
As a Fatah field commander, he fought Israeli forces at the Battle of Karameh, gaining a reputation as an unyielding commander. Abu Ali Iyad was also a leading organizer and participant in guerrilla raids against Israeli localities. He was one of the last Palestinian commanders to fight the Jordanian Army in the aftermath of Black September (also known as the Jordanian Civil War). He was killed in the countryside around Ajlun and Jerash by Jordanian forces during the Ajlun offensive in July 1971. His partisans claimed that he was executed, and as retaliation, they assassinated Jordanian prime minister Wasfi al-Tal four months after Abu Ali Iyad's death.
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