This article is about the Palestinian intelligence chief and senior official. For the Palestinian field commander, see Abu Ali Iyad.
Salah Khalaf
صلاح خلف
Personal details
Born
1933 Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine
Died
14 January 1991(1991-01-14) (aged 57–58) Carthage, Tunisia
Manner of death
Assassination
Resting place
Amman, Jordan
Citizenship
Palestine
Political party
Fatah
Children
6
Alma mater
Al Azhar University Ain Shams University
Occupation
Politician
Salah Mesbah Khalaf (Arabic: صلاح مصباح خلف, romanized: Ṣalāḥ Maṣbāḥ Ḵalaf), also known as Abu Iyad (Arabic: أبو إياد, romanized: ʾAbū ʾIyād) (1933 – 14 January 1991), was deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization and the second most senior official of Fatah after Yasser Arafat.[1]
The United States and Israel believed him to have been a founder of the Black September Organization.
Suspected of having helped the CIA to break up Abu Nidal's so-called "Abu Nidal Organization", Khalaf was assassinated by a member of that organization in 1991. Palestinians, and many onlookers, generally believe Abu Nidal was responsible for his death. Some believe the order came from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
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Salah Mesbah Khalaf (Arabic: صلاح مصباح خلف, romanized: Ṣalāḥ Maṣbāḥ Ḵalaf), also known as Abu Iyad (Arabic: أبو إياد, romanized: ʾAbū ʾIyād) (1933 –...
faction controlled at the time by Yasser Arafat. In his book Stateless, SalahKhalaf (Abu Iyad), Arafat's chief of security and a founding member of Fatah...
designed to assassinate Palestinian leaders – Yassir Arafat, Abu Jihad and SalahKhalaf (Abu Iyad). The Israelis were assisted by agents with transmitters on...
founders SalahKhalaf, Khalil al-Wazir, Yasser Arafat resided. The founders had studied in Cairo or Beirut and had been refugees in Gaza. SalahKhalaf and...
Palestinian who was a member of the Fatah movement. He was an aide of SalahKhalaf. They were assassinated by the Abu Nidal Organization, another Palestinian...
in civil engineering. There he encountered two Palestinian friends: SalahKhalaf ("Abu Iyad") and Khalil al-Wazir ("Abu Jihad"), both official members...
interests. Nidal Fat'hi Rabah Farahat Operation Wooden Leg Khalil al-Wazir SalahKhalaf "Le Hamas accuse le Mossad du meurtre en Tunisie de l'un de ses cadres"...
Carthage, Tunisia, on 14 January 1991 along with other Fatah members, SalahKhalaf and Fakhri Al Omari. Abdul Hamid was born in Safed, Mandatory Palestine...
said that he was capable of hard work and had a good financial brain. SalahKhalaf (Abu Iyad), the deputy chief of Fatah who was assassinated by the ANO...
extraordinary things to limit civilian casualties" during the 2014 Gaza War. Salah Abdul Ati, the directory of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human...
Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad), a founder of Fatah. The alleged killing of SalahKhalaf, head of intelligence of the PLO and second in command of Fatah behind...
2005), Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Team., Simon & Schuster Khalaf, Salah (Abu Iyad) (Tel Aviv, 1983) Without a Homeland: Conversations with Eric...
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