1. However, after clashes with rebels in Yarmouk Camp in Damascus, the PFLP-GC suffered defections and was forced to withdraw from the camp, and Ahmed Jibril fled the city.
10 Facts About Ahmed Jibril
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Ahmed Jibril graduated from the Homs Military Academy and served in the Syrian Army from 1956 until 1958, rising to the rank of captain before being expelled as a suspected Communist.
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In 1968, Ahmed Jibril broke away from the PFLP because of disputes over the more revolutionary Marxism advocated by Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh.
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Ahmed Jibril never wavered from his belief that Palestine could only be liberated through military attrition.
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Ahmed Jibril joined George Habash and other splinter groups which opposed negotiations with the Israeli government.
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Ahmed Jibril launched a variety of inventive attacks, including the "Night of the Gliders" on 25 November 1987.
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Ahmed Jibril is believed to have been behind the shipment of weapons, which were bound for the Gaza Strip.
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Ahmed Jibril fled Damascus, reportedly for the Mediterranean city of Tartous.
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Jibril's son, Jihad Ahmed Jibril, who headed the PFLP-GC's military wing and was in line to replace Jibril as leader of the group, was killed by a car bomb in Beirut on 20 May 2002.
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Ahmed Jibril died of heart failure on 7 July 2021, in Damascus, Syria.