Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08JERUSALEM1007
2008-06-13 08:15:00
SECRET//NOFORN
Consulate Jerusalem
Cable title:
"PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT": PLO FACTION STILL
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S E C R E T JERUSALEM 001007
NOFORN
SIPDIS
S/CT FOR M. ARIAS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/13/2018
TAGS: KPAL PTER KWBG IS
SUBJECT: "PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT": PLO FACTION STILL
ACTIVE, IN TOOTHLESS FORM, IN THE WEST BANK/GAZA
REF: STATE 62588
Classified By: Consul General Jake Walles, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
S E C R E T JERUSALEM 001007
NOFORN
SIPDIS
S/CT FOR M. ARIAS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/13/2018
TAGS: KPAL PTER KWBG IS
SUBJECT: "PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT": PLO FACTION STILL
ACTIVE, IN TOOTHLESS FORM, IN THE WEST BANK/GAZA
REF: STATE 62588
Classified By: Consul General Jake Walles, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (S/NF) Per reftel, Post supplies the following
information on the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF, "Abu
al-Abbas Group"),which retains a leadership structure but no
apparent intent or operational capability to carry out
terrorist actions in the West Bank or Gaza Strip.
2. (S/NF) The PLF is led by Wasal Abu Yusif, a member of the
PLO Central Council resident in Ramallah. Abu Yusif
occasionally attends PLO Executive Committee sessions as an
observer (the PLF lacks an official seat),where he generally
supports positions advanced by the Fatah leadership and
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas (Abu
Mazen),including recognition of the PLO platform and PLO
agreements with Israel. The PLF has a small office in
Ramallah and another in Gaza City that is occasionally open.
The PLF has been a minor political faction here since 2003,
garnering only 3,000 votes out of approximately 1,000,000
cast in January 2006 legislative elections. Post does not
have any information suggesting involvement of PLF activists
in planning, supporting or carrying out acts of terror from
2003 on. The PLF opened several mourning houses in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip when Muhammad Abbas/Zaydan (Abu al-Abbas)
died in Baghdad in March 2004, but this was not accompanied
by any demonstrations or violence.
3. (S/NF) The PLF's activity in the Gaza Strip has been
minimal since the death of Abu al-Abbas' official successor
(and Abu Yusif's predecessor),Abu Ali Halab, in 2006. Post
is not aware of any PLF claims of responsibility for
rocket/mortar or perimeter fence attacks from Gaza from 2003
on.
4. (S/NF) Post has seen no indications that PLF splinter
elements exist in the West Bank or Gaza Strip.
5. (U) Tripoli minimize considered.
WALLES
NOFORN
SIPDIS
S/CT FOR M. ARIAS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/13/2018
TAGS: KPAL PTER KWBG IS
SUBJECT: "PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT": PLO FACTION STILL
ACTIVE, IN TOOTHLESS FORM, IN THE WEST BANK/GAZA
REF: STATE 62588
Classified By: Consul General Jake Walles, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (S/NF) Per reftel, Post supplies the following
information on the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF, "Abu
al-Abbas Group"),which retains a leadership structure but no
apparent intent or operational capability to carry out
terrorist actions in the West Bank or Gaza Strip.
2. (S/NF) The PLF is led by Wasal Abu Yusif, a member of the
PLO Central Council resident in Ramallah. Abu Yusif
occasionally attends PLO Executive Committee sessions as an
observer (the PLF lacks an official seat),where he generally
supports positions advanced by the Fatah leadership and
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas (Abu
Mazen),including recognition of the PLO platform and PLO
agreements with Israel. The PLF has a small office in
Ramallah and another in Gaza City that is occasionally open.
The PLF has been a minor political faction here since 2003,
garnering only 3,000 votes out of approximately 1,000,000
cast in January 2006 legislative elections. Post does not
have any information suggesting involvement of PLF activists
in planning, supporting or carrying out acts of terror from
2003 on. The PLF opened several mourning houses in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip when Muhammad Abbas/Zaydan (Abu al-Abbas)
died in Baghdad in March 2004, but this was not accompanied
by any demonstrations or violence.
3. (S/NF) The PLF's activity in the Gaza Strip has been
minimal since the death of Abu al-Abbas' official successor
(and Abu Yusif's predecessor),Abu Ali Halab, in 2006. Post
is not aware of any PLF claims of responsibility for
rocket/mortar or perimeter fence attacks from Gaza from 2003
on.
4. (S/NF) Post has seen no indications that PLF splinter
elements exist in the West Bank or Gaza Strip.
5. (U) Tripoli minimize considered.
WALLES