Abu Abbas This is Me

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1. 1. BBC NEWS | Middle East | Abbas: Palestinian throwback

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   Published on: 4/16/2003   Last Visited: 3/10/2004

   Abu Abbas was a throwback to an earlier generation of Palestinian fighters, who carried out spectacular acts of hijacking around the world to draw attention to their cause.
   
   Abu Abbas
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   Abu Abbas was from a time when the West Bank and Gaza were wholly under Israeli control and Palestinians could not carry out attacks inside Israel very easily
   
   He ended up in Baghdad because there was nowhere else for this aging militant or terrorist leader to go.
   
   He and his kind have been partly overtaken by the new zealots from al-Qaeda, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who are motivated by religion as well as nationalism.
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   Abu Abbas was from a time when the West Bank and Gaza were wholly under Israeli control and Palestinians could not carry out attacks inside Israel very easily.
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   Abbas made an apology of sorts for the killiing of Leon Klinghoffer
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   The Palestine Liberation Front which Abbas led was a little known faction even at the time. But it was often quite daring.
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   Abu Abbas made an apology of sorts later, saying that the shooting had been a "mistake".
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   Abbas told the Boston Globe in 1998 that Klinghoffer was "inciting and provoking the other passengers.