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Jihad Ahmed Jibril was born in Damascus, Syria, in 1961. He is the eldest son of Ahmed Jibril. [1] He attended the Libyan military academy from 1981 to 1983 and graduated with the rank of a lieutenant colonel. [2] He was studying law at Lebanese University when he was assassinated. [2]
Jihad Ahmed Jibril (deceased) Ahmed Jibril ( Arabic : أحمد جبريل ; c. 1937 – 7 July 2021) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was a Palestinian militant and political leader who was the founder and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC).
The Israelis never forgot Jibril's spectacular exploits, especially the Night of the Hang Gliders, and used a variety of operations to try and kill him, none successfully, although his son and heir Jihad Ahmed Jibril was assassinated by a car bomb on 20 May 2002, with the identity of the assassins unknown.
Among the first to respond, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), whose spokesperson in Jenin, Ahmed Jibril, told ABC News that the first calls for assistance started around 8 a.m. on May 21.
The Jihad Jibril Brigades (Arabic: كتائب جهاد جبريل) form the paramilitary branch of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-CG). They are named after Jihad Ahmed Jibril , the son of founder Ahmed Jibril and former head of the brigades, who died in an car bombing in Beirut in 2002.
In 1968, Ahmed Jibril broke away from the PFLP to form the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC). In 1969, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) formed as a separate, ostensibly Maoist, organization under Nayef Hawatmeh and Yasser Abd Rabbo, initially as the PDFLP.
Exploding cellphone. In a 1988 operation designed to kill Ahmed Jibril, a Palestinian militant working with Hezbollah, an Israeli military team used a trained dog loaded with explosives as part of ...
Jibril was convicted and sentenced for these crimes, to six and one half years in a high-security prison, and was subsequently imprisoned at Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex, from where he was released sometime during 2012. [20] Jibril's Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator number was 31943–039. [9]