he Alawis, as they preferred to be called, saw the French as protectors. In 1936, six Alawi notables sent a memorandum to Leon Blum, head of France's Popular Front government, expressing their loyalty to France and their concern at negotiations leading to independence in a parliamentary system dominated by the S

illing approximatel= 150 and wounding 950. He was killed by Israel in Malta in 1995. Abu Ali Mustafa = Secretary-General of the terror organization Popular Front for the Libera=ion of Palestine (PFLP). The PFLP, which rejected the Oslo Accords (1993),=has planned and carried out numerous terror attacks agains