Editing Palestinian Liberation Front (section)

===Developments after the split===
In 1991, security circles suspected that Iraqi President [[Saddam Hussein]] supported both [[Fatah - Revolutionary Council]] and the PLF. Both groups were considered ‘highly dangerous’. Intelligence agencies assumed that their leaders had been in Baghdad since the outbreak of the Iraq war, although they were said to have been at odds with Hussein for years. According to the German domestic intelligence service, both combat units were represented in Germany by about twelve members.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/alte-brueder-a-0036d498-0002-0001-0000-000013488179?context=issue |website=Der Spiegel |date=10 February 1991 |issue=7 |title=Alte Brüder |language=de}}</ref> At the time, Saddam Hussein was considered to have the ability to influence violent Palestinians. In addition to Abu Nidal and the PLF, the 1st of May organisation is also said to have operated from Baghdad; the city was considered ‘the secret PLO headquarters’. In mid-January 1991, Arafat is said to have stayed there, although he had had a feud with Abu Nidal for a long time. This discord among the PLO leadership was seen as a ‘vacuum at the top of the PLO’.<ref>{{cite web |author=[[:de:Fredy Gsteiger|Fredy Gsteiger]] |url=http://www.zeit.de/1991/04/vakuum-an-der-plo-spitze |language=de |title=Vakuum an der PLO-Spitze |website=Die Zeit |date=1991-01-18 |access-date=2016-02-18}}</ref> Iraq had also provided refuge for ten years to one of the perpetrators of the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, Sheikh Ahmed Jassin. Baghdad has repeatedly allowed terrorists to go underground.<ref>{{cite web |author=Christopher Hitchens |url=http://www.zeit.de/2007/29/Warum_sagst_du_nicht_Ich/komplettansicht |title="Warum sagst du nicht: Ich habe mich geirrt?" |website=Die Zeit |date=2007-07-12 |access-date=2016-02-18}}</ref>

In 1993, the following people were among Yasser Arafat's most important opponents in the PLO:<ref>{{cite web |language=de |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/jassir-arafat-und-seine-wichtigsten-gegner-in-der-plo-a-4b887489-0002-0001-0000-000009286665?context=issue |title=Jassir Arafat und seine wichtigsten Gegner in der PLO |date=5 September 1993 |issue=36 |website=Der Spiegel}}</ref>
* Georges Habash, PFLP Palestine Liberation Front, based in Damascus, approx. 2000 fighters;
* Naif Hawatmeh, DFLP Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, based in Damascus, approx. 1500 fighters;
* Ahmed Jibril, PFLP-GC Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command, based in Damascus, approx. 300 fighters;
* Abu Abbas, PLF Palestinian Liberation Front, based in Baghdad, approx. 500 fighters.

Nevertheless, the leaders of the PLF still worked with the PLO, with Abu Abbas sitting on the PLO's Executive Committee as the PLF's representative. After the PLO signed the [[Gaza-Jericho Agreement|Oslo Agreement]] in 1994, which the PLF rejected, Abu Abbas turned away from terrorism and argued for the right of Israel to exist. The movement continued to maintain offices in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Iraq, but its activities have since diminished. In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the PLF enjoys less popular support, with its main following drawn from the Lebanese refugee camps, where it reportedly sides with Fatah against various Syrian-backed groups.