Fuad Shemali

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Fouad El Chemali (also known as Fuad Shemali) was one of the principal actors behind Black September and the 1972 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum. Born to a Lebanese christian-maronite family in 1936, he studied law at the University of St. Joseph in Beirut. He joined the SSNP and later on the PLO, to become a co-founder of Black September. He died in Geneva,on August 15th 1972.

Black September's first leader was Ali Abu Iyad (real name Mohammed Mustafa Shyein), a deputy of Al Fatah Boss Yasser Arafat. Iyad was wounded, captured and executed in July 1971 after a firefight between guerrillas and Hussein's army. But probably the organization's best-known leader was Fouad El Chemali, who masterminded some of the group's earlier operations before he died of cancer in 1972. Chemali left posthumous instructions to the terrorists to concentrate on kidnaping Israelis held in high esteem by Israelis themselves. He mentioned scholars, scientists and athletes.