Rakad Mahmoud Salameh Salem (kunya

Kunya (Arabic)

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, Abu Mahmoud) is an Iraq

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i-Palestinian

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 politician and longtime Secretary-General of the Arab Liberation Front

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 (ALF), an Iraq

Iraq

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i-controlled Ba'thist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization

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 (PLO). He was also editor-in-chief of the movement's monthly magazine, Sawt al-Jamahir (Arabic

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, Voice of the masses).

He lives in Bir Zeit

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 in the West Bank

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, but was previously active in Lebanon

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 during the Lebanese Civil War

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 as commander of the ALF's military wing. He holds Iraqi citizenship

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. In 2001, he was arrested by Israel

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i forces on suspicion of having transferred money from the Iraqi government to families of Palestinian suicide bombers.http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/eng_n/saddam.htm