Salah Khalaf

Salah Khalaf
صلاح خلف
Personal details
Born	1933 Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine
Died	14 January 1991(1991-01-14) (aged 57–58) Carthage, Tunisia
Manner of death	Assassination
Resting place	Amman, Jordan
Citizenship	Palestine
Political party	Fatah
Children	6
Alma mater	Al Azhar University Ain Shams University
Occupation	Politician

Salah Mesbah Khalaf (Arabic: صلاح مصباح خلف, romanized: Ṣalāḥ Maṣbāḥ Ḵalaf), also known as Abu Iyad (Arabic: أبو إياد, romanized: ʾAbū ʾIyād) (1933 – 14 January 1991), was deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization and the second most senior official of Fatah after Yasser Arafat.^[1]

The United States and Israel believed him to have been a founder of the Black September Organization.

Suspected of having helped the CIA to break up Abu Nidal's so-called "Abu Nidal Organization", Khalaf was assassinated by a member of that organization in 1991. Palestinians, and many onlookers, generally believe Abu Nidal was responsible for his death. Some believe the order came from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.