Arab Liberation Front (Arabic: جبهة التحرير العربية, Jabhet Al-Tahrir Al-'Arabiyah) is a minor Palestinian political faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), politically tied to the Iraqi-led Ba'ath movement formerly headed by Saddam Hussein.
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