Ahmad Sa'adat

Ahmad Sa'adat, also known as Abu Ghassan, is a Palestinian politician who is the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) since 3 October 2001, which is a Marxist–Leninist Palestinian nationalist organisation, and serving in the Palestinian Legislative Council since 18 February 2006. Sa'adat graduated in 1975 from the UNRWA Teachers College, Ramallah, specializing in Mathematics. Sa'adat was elected General Secretary of the PFLP by its Central Committee in October 2001, to succeed Abu Ali Mustafa after his assassination by Israel during the Second Intifada. He has been sentenced to prison terms and held in prison since 2002.