
Ahmad Sa'adat
Palestinian politician (born 1953)

Palestinian politician (born 1953)
Ahmad Sa'adat (also transliterated Sadat or Saadat; Arabic: أحمد سعدات; born 23 February 1953), also known as Abu Ghassan, is a Palestinian politician who is the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) since 3 October 2001, which is a Marxist–Leninist Palestinian nationalist organisation, and serving in the Palestinian Legislative Council since 18 February 2006. Sa'adat graduated in 1975 from the UNRWA Teachers College, Ramallah, specializing in Mathematics. Sa'adat was elected General Secretary of the PFLP by its Central Committee in October 2001, to succeed Abu Ali Mustafa after his assassination by Israel during the Second Intifada. He has been sentenced to prison terms and held in prison since 2002. Sa'adat spent many years in Israeli prisons, on eight occasions. He was accused by Israel of organizing the assassination of Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi, and took refuge in the Muqata'a headquarters of PLO leader Yassir Arafat, which was...
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