Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations: what Wikipedia removed
The PFLP – External Operations was Wadie Haddad’s cell responsible for a wave of international hijackings and attacks in the 1970s, including the Entebbe hijacking. Through 2015 the opening said the group’s international attacks “were regarded as terrorism, and were not sanctioned by” the PFLP, and referred to “the political fallout of Haddad’s spectacular terrorist operations.” Today the opening says only that the attacks “were not sanctioned by” the PFLP, and terror appears zero times in the opening though it survives once in the article. A reader today learns the PFLP did not sanction the attacks, and not that they were regarded as terrorism.
The word “terror” appeared 3 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| militant | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The clause describing the attacks as regarded as terrorism, dropped from the opening.
- A sentence on the political fallout of Haddad’s terrorist operations, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 322696429):
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations (PFLP-EO) or Special Operations (PFLP-SO) or Special Operations Group (PFLP-SOG) were organizational names used by Palestinian radical Wadie Haddad when engaging in international attacks, that were regarded as terrorism , and were not sanctioned by the PFLP. A leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) from its inception, Haddad had been banned from organizing attacks on non- Israeli targets after his role in the Dawson’s Field hijackings in 1970, which were widely seen as having provoked the Black September crackdown on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Jordan . However, Hadd…
2025 (revision 1289693737):
Wadie Haddad’s militant organization The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations ( PFLP-EO ; Arabic : الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين - العمليات الخارجية ) or Special Operations ( PFLP-SO ; العمليات الخاصة ) or Special Operations Group ( PFLP-SOG ; مجموعة العمليات الخاصة ) were organizational names used by Palestinian radical Wadie Haddad when engaging in international attacks, which were not sanctioned by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). ^ Dunstan, Simon (2011). Entebbe: The Most Daring Raid of Israel’s Special Forces . The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. p. 9. ISBN 9781448818686 .
Related
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- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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