The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Special Command (PFLP-SC) was a minor breakout faction from Wadie Haddad

Wadie Haddad

Wadie Haddad , also known as Abu Hani, was a Palestinian doctor of medicine and the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's armed wing...

's ultraradical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations or Special Operations or Special Operations Group were organizational names used by Palestinian radical Wadie Haddad when engaging in international attacks, that were regarded as terrorism, and were not sanctioned by the...

 (neither group should be confused with more established Palestinian

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 factions, such as the PFLP or the PFLP-GC).

The PFLP-SC formed as a breakout organization from the PFLP-EO in 1978, the year of Haddad's death. It was never part of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Palestine Liberation Organization

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 (PLO), and it is unclear if it had a political program. It claimed responsibility for several bomb

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 attacks on civilians in Western Europe

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, possibly performed with support from Libya

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, Iraq

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 or Syria

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. It is believed to have ceased operations in the 1980s.http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/pflp-sc.htm