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Biography of Abu Musa
Name: Abu Musa
Birth Date: 1930
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: Palestinian
Gender: Male
Occupations: military leader, soldier
Abu Musa
Abu Musa (born about ca. 1930) left the Jordanian army in 1970 to join the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In 1983 he emerged as a leader of the hard-line PLO opposition to Yasser Arafat.Abu Musa was born Said Musa Maragha in the West Bank area of what was then Palestine in the early 1930s. During the Arab-Jewish fighting of 1948 the Jordanian army entered the West Bank, ostensibly to help the Palestinian Arabs defend themselves. After the Palestinian Arabs were defeated, however, the Jordanians stayed on, and later annexed the West bank to their own kingdom.When he reached adulthood, Abu Musa joined the Jordanian army. His unit participated in the Arab-Israeli War (Six Day War) of 1967, which resulted in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, along with other Arab territories.Three years later Abu Musa found himself in the middle of the fighting between the Jordanian army and the guerrillas from …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…also know he has done his best and will continue to do so." Impeding peace negotiations, Musa's Palestinian National Liberation Organization sometimes claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks, as when it took responsibility for killing three Israeli soldiers on Israel's frontier with Jordan in 1996.Little is known about Abu Musa's personal history. Generally admired in Arab circles for his military capability, he retained some affectations from his days as a regular army officer, including his habit of usually carrying a cane. Associated Organizations Further Reading There are no works in English which say much about Abu Musa in person. However the general political background to his emergence can be understood from a reading of Quandt, Jabber, and Lesch, The Politics of Palestinian Nationalism (1973), or from Helena Cobban, The Palestinian Liberation Organization: People, Power and Politics (1984). Three worthwhile newspaper articles can be found in the New York Times, November 12, 1989; July 24, 1994; and July 3, 1996.
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