Fatah-Intifada Founder Abou Moussa Dies in Syria

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Palestinian fighter Saeed Marragha, alias Abou Moussa, died of illness Tuesday in Syria where his Fatah-Intifada group was based decades after splitting from the mainstream Fatah faction, his group said.

Abou Moussa "died at dawn at a hospital" in Damascus, succumbing to a long illness, a Fatah-Intifada spokesman said, adding the veteran military commander would be buried in Syria's capital following noon Muslim prayers on Wednesday.

Abou Moussa, 85, who held the rank of colonel and had close ties with both Syria and Iran, rebelled against the Fatah faction of iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1983 and set up his own group, Fatah-Intifada.

Backed by the Syrian army, which was then deployed in Lebanon, he helped chase Fatah from that country during heavy clashes.

Fatah-Intifada is among several radical Syria-based Palestinian groups hostile to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and in favor of the armed struggle against the Jewish State.

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