Today the story is of Wadi Haddad, one of the founders of the Palestinian Popular Front, a known enemy of Israel. Wadi Haddad is also known as Abu Hani. Wadi Haddad was best known as a conspirator of several plane hijackings, the Palestinian guerrilla movement, in the 1960s and 1970s. The most infamous of which was the Entebbe plane hijacking, in which some 106 people were taken hostage.
Wadi Haddad was born in 1927 to a Palestinian Christian family. When his house was destroyed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, he had to flee to Lebanon along with his family. Haddad then attended the American University of Beirut. It was here that he met Palestinian refugee George Habash, with whom he founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1967.
Wadi Haddad became the leader of the group’s military wing and then plotted attacks on Israeli targets. The hijacking of the El-Al, an Israeli aircraft from July 1968, ended in 1972, when it was thrown out of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In the year 1970, Wadi Haddad was the man who plotted the Dawson Field hijacking. Several members of PFLP including Laila Khalid were involved in these hijackings.
During this time Haddad also helped in instigating the bloody battle of Black September. Haddad also took Carlos the Jackal with him in 1970 and had carried out the attack on the Vienna OPEC conference. However, Carlos freed two Saudi and Iranian ministers in exchange for huge sums of money.
Wadi Haddad then carried out the Entebbe kidnapping in June 1976, which was thwarted by Mossad running Operation Thunderbolt. Since then he has joined the hit list of Mossad. After a long time, Mossad found him in Baghdad, Iraq. Mossad then mixed up a colleague working with the plaintiff, Haddad, and killed him by poisoning him with toothpaste.