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Ahmad Jibril

Head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command Ahmad Jibril attends a conference in Tehran, Iran, February 21, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
July 7, 2021, 8:18 pm
Ahmad Jibril, head of Syria-based Palestinian terror group PFLP-GC, dead at 83
Jibril’s group responsible for deadly terror attacks against Israelis, a famous prisoner exchange that saw 1,150 Palestinian security prisoners freed; PA’s Abbas sends condolences
By Aaron Boxerman
Attorney General William Barr speaks during a news conference, December 21, 2020, at the Justice Department in Washington. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)
December 21, 2020, 8:55 pm
US Justice Department charges bombmaker in 1988 Lockerbie plane attack
AG William Barr says Abu Agela Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, the ‘man responsible’ for airline bombing that killed 270, will finally be ‘subject to justice for his crimes’
By Eric Tucker and MICHAEL BALSAMO
A policeman walking away from the damaged cockpit of the 747 Pan Am airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, with 259 passengers on board, December 22, 1988. (ROY LETKEY/AFP)
November 26, 2020, 10:26 pm
Posthumous appeal against Lockerbie bomber’s conviction ends; judges mull ruling
Justices say will issue decision as soon as possible on Abdelbaset Mohmet Al-Megrahi, whose family insists he was innocent of airline bombing that killed 270
By AFP and ToI Staff
Hours after the event, policemen stand near the wreckage of the 747 Pan Am airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988. (Roy Letkey/AFP)
November 26, 2020, 12:12 pm
Who made the bomb? The full truth about Lockerbie is still not being told
As relatives of the 1 man convicted for blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 try to posthumously clear him, potentially crucial evidence of a Palestinian terrorist’s role is again withheld
By David Horovitz
PFLP-GC Secretary-General Ahmad Jibril speaks to Al-Mayadeen TV on FEbruary 17, 2017 (Courtesy of MEMRI)
February 25, 2017, 3:08 pm
Palestinian terror leader urges Iran to join ‘all-out war’ on Israel, then Jordan
Ahmad Jibril, head of Lebanon-based PFLP-GC, calls for liberation campaign ‘in the Golan, in the Galilee, from Rosh Hanikra to Aqaba’
By ToI Staff
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, June 4, 2014. (AFP/HO/Iranian Supreme Leader's website)
January 26, 2015, 9:45 pm
Palestinian terror chief meets with Khamenei in Tehran
Iranian Supreme Leader tells Assad ally Ahmad Jibril that Iran will always support Palestinians
By Lazar Berman
PFLP-GC chief Ahmed Jibril (right) pictured with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut in May 2002. Jibril's son, Jihad Jibril, was killed in a car bombing in Beirut that month. (photo credit: AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
July 28, 2014, 5:03 am
PFLP-GC chief says Syria, Iran, Hezbollah armed Hamas
Palestinian terror leader says Islamist group received weapons and training from Tehran, missiles smuggled through Sinai
By ToI Staff
June 19, 2014, 10:17 pm
The 5 most lopsided prisoner swaps in Israeli history
As the search for three missing teens drags into its second week, we look at Israel’s history of exchanging prisoners for prisoners
By Debra Kamin
Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, December 22, 1988. (photo credit: AP)
March 19, 2014, 3:54 pm
‘Bomb-maker’ brags about El Al blast, posts Lockerbie photos
Marwan Khreesat, tied to PFLP-GC airplane bombings in 1970s, was arrested just before Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up in 1988. Now he’s promising explanations
By ToI Staff
Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, December 22, 1988. (photo credit: AP)
March 13, 2014, 11:26 pm
Iran blames ‘Zionists’ for new evidence it ordered Lockerbie blast
Tehran slams al-Jazeera for documentary in which defector fingers Khomeini for Pan Am bombing which killed 270 people
By ToI Staff
Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, December 22, 1988. (photo credit: AP)
March 11, 2014, 2:20 pm
Lockerbie: The case against Iran
Op-ed: The same defector who credibly implicated Tehran in the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires has now charged Iran with responsibility for the 1988 Lockerbie blast. A new investigation is urgently needed
By David Horovitz
Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, December 22, 1988. (photo credit: AP)
March 11, 2014, 3:09 am
‘Lockerbie bombing was the work of Iran, not Libya’
In new documentary, former Iranian spy says Khomeini ordered the attack in retaliation for accidental US strike on Iranian plane
By ToI Staff
A member of the public looks on at a memorial stone in memory of the victims of the Pan Am flight 103 bombing in the garden of remembrance at Dryfesdale Cemetery, near Lockerbie, Scotland, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Scott Heppell)
December 21, 2013, 9:52 pm
Memorials mark Lockerbie attack anniversary
Families of over 270 victims of Pan Am 103 bombing gather for services in US, Britain
By AP and ToI Staff
Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, December 22, 1988. (photo credit: AP)
December 19, 2013, 3:37 pm
‘Palestinian group carried out Lockerbie bombing’
Gaddafi may have commissioned attack that killed 270 people 25 years ago, ex-Israeli security official tells Times of Israel, but Ahmed Jibril’s PFLP-GC carried it out
By David Horovitz
A fragment of one of four rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, Thursday, August 22, 2013. (photo credit: screen capture/Channel 2)
August 23, 2013, 9:22 am
Palestinian-Lebanese group vows retaliation for IAF strikes
Terror group allied with Syria, Iran says reaction will come ‘at right time’; Israel holds Lebanese gov’t responsible for rocket strikes; Hezbollah denies role
By Ilan Ben Zion and Ricky Ben-David
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