LC control no. | n 2012008766 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | ʻAbbās, Muḥammad, 1948-2004 |
Variant(s) | Abū al-ʻAbbās, 1948-2004 Zaidan, Muhammad, 1948-2004 Zaydān, Muḥammad, 1948-2004 Abūl-ʻAbbās, 1948-2004 عباس، محمد، 1948-2004 أبو العباس، 1948-2004 زيدان، محمد، 1948-2004 |
Birth date | 1948-12-10 |
Death date | 2004-03-08 |
Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
Found in | al-Irhāb yaghtālu fāris Filasṭīn, 2004: t.p. (al-shahīd Muḥammad ʻAbbās (Abū al-ʻAbbās)) intro., etc. (leader of the PLF; d. Oct. 03, 2004 of natural causes) Wikipedia, 2-7-12: (Muhammad Zaidan [in rom.] (December 10, 1948-March 8, 2004); also known as Abūl Abbās or Muhammad Abbās, was the founder and leader of paramilitary group the Palestine Liberation Front (P.L.F.); born in 1948 in a Syrian refugee camp; joined the radical, pro-Syrian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command under Ahmed Jibril in 1968; in 1977, major disagreements arose between the P.F.L.P.-G.C., the P.L.O., and other Palestinian factions based in Lebanon; Zaidan, who opposed Syrian involvement in the Lebanese war, left the P.F.L.P. and created the P.L.F. with Talaat Yaacoub, which eventually split into three separate factions (and then later re-merged); Zaidan's faction of the P.L.F., which was the largest of the three, moved its headquarters to Tunisia) |