DAMASCUS, Syria: Radical Palestinian guerrilla leader Ahmed Jibril vowed Sunday to kill British author Salman Rushdie in compliance with the orders of Iran’s leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. dibril, a former Syrian army officer and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
General Command (PFLPGC), said in a statement:
“We in the PFLPGC will confront this new conspiracy (against Islam) and work to execute the legal action against Rushdie.”
A spokesman for the Damascus based PFLPGC, asked if the statement represented a death threat against the Indian born author, said: “Certainly. This is a death sentence against Rushdie.”
The statement, quoting verses from the Koran, said Rushdie’s novel, “The Satanic Verses,” was a conspiracy to defame Islam and had been written at the behest of “arrogant (Western)” forces.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 10, 1989
