Salah Mesbah Khalaf (Arabic: صلاح مصباح خلف), also known as Abu Iyad (أبو إياد) (born 1933 – January 14, 1991), was deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the second most senior official of Fatah after Yasser Arafat. He was believed by the United States and Israel to have been a founder of the Black September Organization. In his memoir, he stated that he had hand-picked the gunmen for the Munich Massacre of Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympic Games, as well as transporting the assault rifles and grenades used in the attack.
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1933 Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine
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14 January 1991 (aged 57) Carthage, Tunisia
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