In an interview with the German newspaper Bild, Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "is a psychopath of the worst kind. He speaks like Hitler did of the extermination of the entire Jewish nation." Soon afterwards, PFLP leader Ahmed Jibril warned the U.S. and Israel that if they attacked Syria or Iran, the PFLP would fight them.
"We will not allow any aggression against Syria or the Islamic Republic of Iran," Jibril told a rally of about 1,000 supporters in a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. "I say it frankly, we will not only be on their side, we will be in the forefront," said Jibril.
In the 1960s through 1980s, his PFLP-GC hijacked an Israeli airliner, machine-gunned another at Zurich's airport, and blew up a Tel Aviv-bound Swissair plane, killing all 47 aboard. In 1987, a PFLP-GC guerrilla flew from Lebanon into Israel on a hang-glider and killed six soldiers before being shot dead.
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