Abu al-Abbas died at the American detention center
Iraq-Palestine, Politics, 3/10/2004

The US defense department ( Pentagon) announced yesterday the death of the secretary general of the People's Front For Liberation of Palestine, Muhammad Abbas ( Abu al-Abbas ), who has been in detention by the American occupation forces in Iraq since one year.

The spokesman for the Pentagon, Brian Wittman, told reporters "preliminary reports says he died of natural reasons and it seemed that medical attempts did not succeed to save his life." Wittman refused to disclose the place where Abu al-Abbas had died.

Another official at the Pentagon said that Abu al-Abbas was held in Iraq at his death. The American occupation forces had detained Abu al-Abbas in April 2003 in Baghdad following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.

A Palestinian official in Ramullah announced earlier that Abu al-Abbas who had heart problems died.

Abu al-Abbas was born in Damascus in 1949 for a family which came from Haifa. He is a member of the executive committee of the Palestine liberation movement and the Palestinian national council. N.

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