…Formerly a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Abu Sharif was dubbed the "face of terror" by Time Magazine for his role in the Dawson's Field hijackings in 1970, when the PFLP hijacked Pan Am, Swissair, and TWA flights a fourth pair of hijackers on an El Al f...
…hysics and The New York Times refuted that claim, insisting that Arafat's record indicated that it was highly unlikely that the cause of his death was AIDS.[137][140] Arafat's personal doctor Ashraf al-Kurdi and aide Bassam Abu Sharif maintained that Arafat was poisoned,[129][130] possibly b...