Jordan buries Palestinian guerrilla leader Habash

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2008

AMMAN (AFP) — George Habash, founder of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine that pioneered plane hijackings in the 1970s, was buried on Monday in Jordan, a kingdom that was once his sworn enemy.

Around 2,000 mourners carried Palestinian flags and pictures of the veteran guerrilla leader and chanted anti-Israeli slogans as his flag-draped coffin was taken from a Greek Orthodox church in Amman to a cemetery outside the capital.

Habash, a Christian who had led the PFLP for three decades and was a fierce proponent of armed struggle against Israel, died in an Amman hospital on Saturday of a heart attack.

"Rest, rest, we will continue the struggle," mourners shouted. "The leader of our national unity is gone, but his wisdom is here to stay....