Anis naccache biography of donald
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COVID-19 kills former Lebanese militant Anis Naccache.
Naccache, Lebanese associate of Carlos the Jackal, dies in Damascus
Yamani, who was one of ministers kidnapped by Naccache, died just hours later in London
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Damascus: Lebanese militant Anis Naccache, an accomplice of the notorious Carlos the Jackal, died Monday of coronavirus in a Damascus hospital at the age of 70, Syrian state media said.
Naccache took part in the 1975 OPEC conference hostage-taking in Vienna.
Hailing him as a “thinker and freedom fighter”, the official SANA news agency said he was “admitted into intensive care two days ago...
because his health deteriorated as a result of COVID-19”.
Authorities will repatriate his remains for burial in Lebanon, said the pro-Damascus Al Mayadeen television channel.
Naccache was jailed in France for leading an attempted assassination of Iran’s former prime minister Shahpur Bakhtiar in Paris in 1980.
A five-man hit squad led by Naccache killed two people in the attack on Bakhti