PFLP-GC's leader Ahmad Jabril (b. 1938) regarded, and still does, Habash's PFLP as a bunch of wimps, so he and his men split in 1968 to focus on killing and maiming, while Habash employed just a little less violence to achieve his ends. Because Jabril was a captain in the Syrian army when Assad was minister of defense at the time Israel took the Golan Heights, it's understandable why the PFLP-GC is tighter with Syria than latex on an aerobics instructor. The PFLP-GC is headquartered in Damascus. Iran chips in when they run short of funds.
The group's sensationalist suicide attacks, employing everything from hang gliders to hot-air balloons, has given its "airline" the fewest number of members of any frequent flyer program found in Palestine. Although not as large as the vanilla-flavored PFLP, the PFLP-GC is still a major threat to Israelis.
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