---
category: Paramilitary
location: Damascus, Syria
start: 1968
summary: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command is a Damascus-based
  Palestinian militant organization implicated by the Interfor investigative firm
  as the group behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
tags:
- Organization
- Paramilitary
- Palestine
- Terrorism
- PanAm103
---

The [PFLP-GC](/organizations/popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine-general-command/) is a Palestinian militant organization. It was implicated by the private investigative firm Interfor as being behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Interfor claimed that the [PFLP-GC](/organizations/popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine-general-command/) was able to get their bomb on board the 747 because the flight was part of a heroin smuggling route connected to the Syrian regime and protected by both the [U.S. DEA](/organizations/dea/) and the [CIA](/organizations/central-intelligence-agency/).[^1]

Allegations suggest that a suitcase intended for heroin was covertly substituted with explosives by the [PFLP-GC](/organizations/popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine-general-command/) and [Monzer Al-Kassar](/people/monzer-al-kassar/), unbeknownst to others involved in the alleged drug smuggling operation. The [PFLP-GC](/organizations/popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine-general-command/) also maintained camps in the Bekaa Valley in [Lebanon](/places/lebanon/), which were targeted by [Israeli](/places/israel/) air strikes in 1989.[^1]

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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.