Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (in Arabic جورج إبراهيم عبدالله) (born on 2 April 1951) is a Lebanese militant. Born in Al Qoubaiyat, Lebanon, he joined the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF) when the group formed following the discontinuation of the PFLP-EO. He became leader of the organization, and conducted its operations from France, where he used the aliases Salih al-Masri and Abdu-Qadir Saadi.

He was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for the 1982 murder of Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Ray, who was an assistant US military attaché and murder of Israeli diplomat Yaakov Bar-Simantov outside his home in Paris on 3 April 1982, as well as involvement in the attempted assassination of former American consul in Strasbourg Robert O. Homme, who survived a shooting on 26 March 1984 after a gun was found in his apartment during a police raid. This all happened during the 1982 Lebanon War.

Abdallah is imprisoned in France, and has released communiqués from prison in solidarity with prisoners from other militant groups, such as Action Directe and GRAPO.

He is the uncle of Chloé Delaume.

In 1999, Abdallah completed the minimum portion of his life sentence, but several parole requests were denied. In 2003, the court gave him parole but the US Department of State objected to the juridical decision. Dominique Perben, the Minister of Justice at the time, made an appeal against the release.

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