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SCU Zoom into CU interior Secretary General of The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command Ahmed Jibril speaking in Arabic.
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Captain Jibril, whose group has Syrian backing, said he did not expect the Arab oil producers to cut off supplies to the west unless Israel started a new Middle East war.




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Background: In Lebanon, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said on Monday (9 July) that Palestinian commandos have trained as fighter pilots and are ready to die in suicide raids on israeli cities. Ahmed Jibrial, Secretary General of the PFLP said a palestinian suicide pilot would be able to strike anywhere in israel including Tel Aviv, Haifa and jerusalem.

SYNOPSIS: Captain Ahmed Jibril, who heads the PFLP General Command, told newsmen that the group has trained pilots to operate the latest Soviet built MIG - 23s. None of the commando groups under the umbrella of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) have any aircraft. But Captain Jibril left no doubt that he expected the eventual delivery of planes to his fighters. He warned that if Israel continued, as he put it," to annihilate the Palestinians" they would resort to the air force.

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Captain Jibril's radical group made headlines in April, 1974, when three commandos slipped into an Israeli village and seized scores of hostages. In the ensuing battle with the Israeli army, all three commandos were killed and eighteen Israelis died. Captain Jibril said in future suicide raids with the use of aircraft means they will need only one person to carry out a mission.