Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations
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Leader(s)	Wadie Haddad
Dates of operation	1972~ - 1976~
Motives	Palestinian nationalism
Active region(s)	Middle East, West Bank, operations in Uganda, Israel
Ideology	Marxism-Leninism
Notable attacks	Entebbe Operation
Status	Defunct

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO) (in Arabic الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين - العمليات الخارجية) or Special Operations (PFLP-SO) (in Arabic العمليات الخاصة) or Special Operations Group (PFLP-SOG) (in Arabic مجموعة العمليات الخاصة) 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 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (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, Haddad defied the ban by claiming to carry out his attacks in the name of a PFLP-EO faction, although he remained part of the PFLP. To support him, he solicited the help of non-PFLP organizations such as the Abu Nidal Organization and the West German Revolutionary Cells (RZ). He also employed his PFLP protégé, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez ("Carlos"), who is currently imprisoned in France for terrorist acts committed in 1982-83.