Georges Ibrahim Abdallah is a Lebanese

Lebanon

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 militant. He joined the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction (LARF) when the group formed following the discontinuation of PFLP-SOC. He became leader of the organisation, and conducted its operations from France, where he used the aliases Salih al-Masri and Abdu-Qadir Saadi. He was captured in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for his involvement in the 1982 murder of Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Ray, who was an assistant US

United States

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 military attaché

Military attaché

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 in Paris

Paris

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. Abdallah is imprisoned in France

France

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, and has released communiqués from prison in solidarity with prisoners from other terrorist groups, such as Action Directe and GRAPO.