George Habash

George Habash is an international terrorist who heads an organization with a sordid record of airliner hijackings and civilian massacres dating back many years. The blood of scores of innocent people is on his hands. Yet last week the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was allowed to enter France, allegedly for urgently needed medical treatment. There he remained in a tightly guarded hospital for three days until a political outcry forced his departure.

In response to your editorial, "Paris Should Be Embarrassed," Feb. 4: In this day and age you still refuse to recognize that leaders like Dr. George Habash (leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) are respected and loved by far more people than those imposed puppet leaders the U.S. State Department considers allies in the Arab world. A publication like yours should have been cleansed of Zionist influence that blinds its editors to the facts and truths about the Middle East.

George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, met with Communist Party officials Monday, the state CTK news agency reported. Habash's group is one of the more staunchly Marxist factions in the Palestine Liberation Organization.

The French government survived a parliamentary vote of confidence on Tuesday over its handling of the controversial hospitalization here last month of Palestinian guerrilla leader George Habash. The censure vote proposed by center-right opposition parties in the French National Assembly received 261 votes, 28 votes short of the tally needed to bring down the government of Prime Minister Edith Cresson.

Ailing Palestinian guerrilla leader George Habash, 65, has been placed under guard at a Paris hospital and will be interrogated in connection with terrorist cases if medically possible, a Cabinet minister said today. France's decision to allow the Palestinian guerrilla leader into the country for medical treatment was sharply criticized Thursday at home and abroad as giving shelter to an acknowledged terrorist.

The French government survived a parliamentary vote of confidence on Tuesday over its handling of the controversial hospitalization here last month of Palestinian guerrilla leader George Habash. The censure vote proposed by center-right opposition parties in the French National Assembly received 261 votes, 28 votes short of the tally needed to bring down the government of Prime Minister Edith Cresson.

The French government had proof of George Habash's complicity in the 1976 hijacking of an Air France jetliner even as it allowed the Palestinian guerrilla chief to leave the country last week, a major Jewish group said Thursday. The World Jewish Congress said it was issuing a protest to the French government and demanding to know why Habash was not arrested, said Executive Director Elan Steinberg.

In an attempt to put an end to the swirling political controversy surrounding Palestinian guerrilla leader George Habash's entry into France last week for medical treatment, President Francois Mitterrand on Tuesday dismissed the matter as "not serious" but only "an error of judgment" on the part of senior French bureaucrats.

Opposition leaders called Friday for Prime Minister Edith Cresson and senior ministers in her government to resign for their responsibility in a controversial decision to allow ailing Palestinian guerrilla leader George Habash to come to France for medical treatment.

Palestinian guerrilla leader George Habash left France on Saturday after three days of hospitalization in Paris that stirred up a national political furor, forced the resignations of four senior officials and shook the governing Socialist Party to the core. Habash, 65, under treatment for a heart condition, departed France for Tunis, Tunisia, in an Algerian jet after doctors ruled that his condition was too poor to permit his interrogation by French authorities for terrorist crimes.

The French government had proof of George Habash's complicity in the 1976 hijacking of an Air France jetliner even as it allowed the Palestinian guerrilla chief to leave the country last week, a major Jewish group said Thursday. The World Jewish Congress said it was issuing a protest to the French government and demanding to know why Habash was not arrested, said Executive Director Elan Steinberg.

In an attempt to put an end to the swirling political controversy surrounding Palestinian guerrilla leader George Habash's entry into France last week for medical treatment, President Francois Mitterrand on Tuesday dismissed the matter as "not serious" but only "an error of judgment" on the part of senior French bureaucrats.

George Habash is an international terrorist who heads an organization with a sordid record of airliner hijackings and civilian massacres dating back many years. The blood of scores of innocent people is on his hands. Yet last week the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was allowed to enter France, allegedly for urgently needed medical treatment. There he remained in a tightly guarded hospital for three days until a political outcry forced his departure.

Palestinian guerrilla leader George Habash left France on Saturday after three days of hospitalization in Paris that stirred up a national political furor, forced the resignations of four senior officials and shook the governing Socialist Party to the core. Habash, 65, under treatment for a heart condition, departed France for Tunis, Tunisia, in an Algerian jet after doctors ruled that his condition was too poor to permit his interrogation by French authorities for terrorist crimes.

Opposition leaders called Friday for Prime Minister Edith Cresson and senior ministers in her government to resign for their responsibility in a controversial decision to allow ailing Palestinian guerrilla leader George Habash to come to France for medical treatment.

Ailing Palestinian guerrilla leader George Habash, 65, has been placed under guard at a Paris hospital and will be interrogated in connection with terrorist cases if medically possible, a Cabinet minister said today. France's decision to allow the Palestinian guerrilla leader into the country for medical treatment was sharply criticized Thursday at home and abroad as giving shelter to an acknowledged terrorist.

In response to your editorial, "Paris Should Be Embarrassed," Feb. 4: In this day and age you still refuse to recognize that leaders like Dr. George Habash (leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) are respected and loved by far more people than those imposed puppet leaders the U.S. State Department considers allies in the Arab world. A publication like yours should have been cleansed of Zionist influence that blinds its editors to the facts and truths about the Middle East.

Habash obituary: The obituary of George Habash, the founder of Arab nationalism, in Sunday's California section referred to Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock as Islam's holiest shrine. In fact, Islam's holiest site is considered to be the Kaaba, which is near the center of the great mosque in Mecca.

George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, met with Communist Party officials Monday, the state CTK news agency reported. Habash's group is one of the more staunchly Marxist factions in the Palestine Liberation Organization.