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- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Command (PFLP-SC)
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- Description
- Marxist-Leninist group formed by Abu Salim in 1979 after breaking away from
- the now defunct PFLP-Special Operations Group.
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- Activities
- Has claimed responsibility for several notorious international terrorist
- attacks in Western Europe, including the bombing of a restaurant frequented
- by US servicemen in Torrejon, Spain, in April 1985. Eighteen Spanish
- civilians were killed in the attack.
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- Strength
- 50.
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- Location/Area of Operation
- Operates out of southern Lebanon, in various areas of the Middle East, and
- in Western Europe.
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- External Aid
- Probably receives financial and military support from Syria, Libya, and
- Iraq.
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