BAGHDAD: BLACK JUNE CARRIED OUT ATTEMPT ON KHADDAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-238-3-17-6
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: December 2, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/18 : LOC-HAK-238-3-17-6
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BAGHDAD z BLACK. JUNE CARRIED OUT ATTEMPT ON KHADQAM
JNO~t7~7 BAGHDAD DOMESTIC ,SERVICE IN ARA$IC 1.700 GMT 2 DEC 'I6 JN
CTEXT) IN A STATEMENT RELEASED IN MADRID TODAY, THfw BLACK
JUNE ORGAitIIZATION HAS CLAIMED RIPONSIBILITY FOR THE ASSASSINATION
ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE DEPUTY ..PRIME MINTST'ER AND FOR;IGN MINISTER
OF THE SYR-IAN REGIME, 'ABD AL-HALIM KHADDAM.
THE STATF.h1ENT .SAID THAT IN IMPLEMENTING IAISTRUCTIONS OF THE
ORGANIZATION ON THE NECESSITY OF PURSURTNG TF{E LEADERS OF THE
TRAITOROUS REGIME OF DAf7ASGUS AND. TO CARRY pUT. THE PEOPLE'S DEATH
SENTENCE AGAINST THEM, THE GROUP OF THE. MARTYR ABU HASHISH PURSUED TRAITt
'ABD AL-t{ALIM KHADDAM, MEi~ER OF THE LEADERSHTP OF THE PARTY OF
THE AUT}{ORITY AND DEPUTY PRTt~E MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER, FOR
A LONG TIME.
THE STATEMENT SAID THAT ON THE MORNING OF 1 DECEMBER,
WHILE KFIADDAM WAS ON HIS WAY TO HUNT CAS-SAYD) IN THE
DAMASCUS GHAWTAH WHERE HE IS ACCUSTOMED TO SPENDTNG HIS WEEKENDS,
THE GROUP MANAGED TO OPEN FIRE AT HIM IN THE DUMMAR AREA OPPOSITE
THE HOUSE pF MARTYR LEADER ABU 'ALT IYAD, AND ANNIHILATED THE
'CAR OF GUARDS AGCC)MPANYING HTM. TRAITOR !(HADDAM WAS SERIOUSLY
INJURED. THE GROUA RETURNED SAFELY TO BASE.,
THE STATEMENT SAID THAT IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT 'THE OPERATIOid
WAS GARRIED OUT IN PUBLIC, THE DAMASCUS AUTHORITIES WERE: FORCED
TO ADMIT IT. THE BLACK JUNE ORGANIZATION'S STATEMENT SA TD THgT
THE ORGANIZATION WILL CONTINUE TO P1~RSUE THE TRAITORS CJF DAMASCUS
AND AMMAN, AND THEY. WTLL NOT ESCAPE IT. THE ORGANIZATIpN ASSERTED
THAT IT wILL CONTINUE ITS COURSE IN PUNISHING THE KILLERS GRT~IINALS
AND THE PE,OPLE'S EXECUTIONERS. THE ORGANTZATI(~N ASSERTED'THAT'
ALL. FORMS C)F }'ROTECTION AND SUPPORT GIVEN TO ME(~3ERS' OF THE .
TERRORIST CLIQUE IN DAMASCUS BY THEIR MASTERS WTLL NOT PROTECT THEM.
2 DEC 1800 SSGd/SAJ
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/18 : LOC-HAK-238-3-17-6