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Poor sourcing

This article - about a Jordanian officer-turned-Palestinian-revolutionary - is absurdly lifted almost exclusively from an Iranian propaganda site, which places it in the framework of the Iranian-Israeli (rather than Palestinian-Israeli) conflict - to the context of claiming that Daaish was trying to recover Israeli graves. As such, the style follows the very distinct style of Iranian martyr autobiographies (see others on this website, such as Mehdi Bakeri, Ebrahim Hemmat, Hossein Kharrazi, etc) - "so-and-so was a revolutionary, he studied here and there, at this age he joined the revolutionaries, he was very very oh-so-revolutionary, he was nicknamed this and that because of being so accomplished". Absurd sourcing - I could write a better epitaph with my eyes closed. In actual fact, Saad Sayel was a very capable Fatah military commander; he was a Jordanian career officer who during the 1970-71 Jordan "Black September" war defected to Fatah, for whom he led military and security. Stolid and influential, he led Fatah forces in Lebanon against the Israeli invasion in both 1978 and 1982, and he was killed in the latter campaign during September 1982.

The rest of the stuff is both irrelevant, and - I suspect - lifted straight off Iranian state media. Which is not necessarily wrong (Iranian media is no less likely to talk truthfully than any other state media), but it's wildly inappropriate for any encyclopedia.

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