Fakhri Al-Omari

Fakhri Al Omari (1936 – 14 January 1991), known as Abu Muhammad, was a Palestinian who was a member of the Fatah movement. He was an aide of Salah Khalaf. They were assassinated by the Abu Nidal Organization in Tunisia on 14 January 1991.

Biography Fakhri Al Omari was born in Jaffa in 1936. He was one of the participants in the first meeting of the Fatah movement in Cairo in 1955. He was one of the planners of the attack. The decision to organize the Munich attack was taken by Salah Khalaf, Abu Daoud and Al Omari in a meeting at a Roman coffee shop in early July 1972. Al Omari took the weapons from the lockers in the Munich central railway station.

Assassination Al Omari was assassinated in Carthage, Tunisia, on 14 January 1991, along with Salah Khalaf at the home of Hayel Abdul Hamid, chief security officer of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). A funeral service was held for them in Amman where they were buried at the martyr's cemetery.

The perpetrator was Hamza Abu Said, a Palestinian bodyguard born in Wahdat refuge camp, Jordan, in 1963. Then he escaped from the site, but he was captured by the Tunisian security forces.

Abu Said was interrogated and imprisoned by the Tunisian authorities. He declared during the interrogation that he was an agent of the Abu Nidal Organization. Later the PLO leader Yasser Arafat managed to take him from the Tunisians through his meeting with the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. He was found dead in his cell in June 1991.