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has gloss | eng: The so-called ‘Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners’ – FLLF (Arabic: Jabhat al-Tahrir al-Gharib fi Lubnan) or Front pour la Liberátion du Liban des Étrangers (FLLE) in French was an obscure underground terrorist organization that surfaced in the early 1980s. Very little is known about the FLLF, except it was formed in 1977 at East Beirut and had less than 200 members, suspected of being trained and financed by the MOSSAD, Israel’s Intelligence Service. The group made its début in July 1981 with a bomb attack on the Rue Fakhani PLO offices in West Beirut, though it only reached the peak of its activities later in September by unleashing a spate of car-bombings that created havoc in the Muslim quarters of Sidon, Tripoli, Chekka and west Beirut until February 1982. In the latter case, the car-bombs were combined with a powerfull command-detonated explosive device planted at a packed Cinema – followed suit by another in early October – that left 300 civilians dead or wounded. |
lexicalization | eng: Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners |
instance of | e/List of political parties in Lebanon |
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