The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is a Palestinian armed group co-founded by George Habash and Ahmed Khatib, then college roommates at the American University of Beirut. Khatib later became, briefly, Iraq’s installed occupation governor of Kuwait in August 1990.[1]
John Kiriakou names the PFLP — along with 17 November, the Abu Nidal Organization, the Libyans, and the PFLP General Command (a splinter) — as among the groups operating through Athens during his late-1990s tour there, when “Greece was the most dangerous place in the world.” The Greek government of Andreas Papandreou, per Kiriakou, had told the Arab armed groups: “You can pass through here if you don’t kill Greeks.”[2][3]