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tags:
  - Organization
  - Paramilitary
  - Palestine
  - Terrorism
  - PanAm103
category: "Paramilitary"
summary: "The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command is a Damascus-based Palestinian militant organization implicated by the Interfor investigative firm as the group behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103."
start: 1968
location: "Damascus, Syria"
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The [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command|PFLP-GC]] is a Palestinian militant organization. It was implicated by the private investigative firm [[Interfor]] as being behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Interfor claimed that the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command|PFLP-GC]] was able to get their bomb on board the 747 because the flight was part of a heroin smuggling route connected to the Syrian regime and protected by both the [[DEA|U.S. DEA]] and the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]].[^1]

Allegations suggest that a suitcase intended for heroin was covertly substituted with explosives by the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command|PFLP-GC]] and [[Monzer Al-Kassar]], unbeknownst to others involved in the alleged drug smuggling operation. The [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command|PFLP-GC]] also maintained camps in the Bekaa Valley in [[Lebanon]], which were targeted by [[Israel|Israeli]] air strikes in 1989.[^1]

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### Footnotes

[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.