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World Service,11 Jul 2009,26 mins

Bassam Abu Sharif, Former Senior Adviser to the Late Yasser Arafat

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Bassam Abu Sharif, joined a radical Palestinian group in the 1960s and was labelled the 'face of terror' by Time Magazine. He survived an assassination attempt, and as an advisor to Yasser Arafat worked towards a two state solution. On The Interview he tells Owen Bennett-Jones about his life at the heart of the PLO, and why his people still don't have an independent homeland.

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