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A news item involving Muhammad Zaidan was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 9 March 2004.

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I am the author of the original version of this page. I forgot to sign in. Chadloder 23:18 Apr 15, 2003 (UTC)

I seem to recall that Zaidan was captured by US forces who intercepted an egyptian airliner and forced it to land in Italy, whereupon the Italians for some unfathomable reason, let him leave.

Title[edit]

I suggest that the title be moved to Muhammad Zaidan. Several million people are named Abu Abbas, and it should be a disambiguation page. The article text refers to him as Zaidan, so I would assume Muhammad Zaidan would be the primary name for him.

I'm not familiar with this person, so I'll just leave it as a suggestion. Cuñado - Talk 18:44, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the page to Muhammad Zaidan. It makes sense to use his full name rather than his nick name/nom de guerre. Also reading through the article, it already makes use of the Zaidan name. --Abnn 03:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

needs info on his visits to israel[edit]

the fact that he was able to publicly travel to israel in the 1990's is significant —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.152.252.100 (talk) 15:40, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fuciamo airport ?[edit]

All over the web this "phantom" airport is spreading starting from this article. I guess it is wrong word for "Fiumicino", the little town were Roma Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport is located. No Fuciamo airport has ever built and all chronicles of the time always mentioned Fiumicino as the place were Abbas was disembarked.--EH101 (talk) 16:18, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to remove the reference to "Fuciamo" entirely and just say "Rome". Luzzy fogic (talk) 14:06, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Release by Italy[edit]

An explanation of "inside deals in the Italian government" would help alleviate some of the vagueness here. The lack on inline citations doesn't help. 38.99.133.32 (talk) 20:49, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Birthplace Bias[edit]

"Born Muhammad Zaidan December 10, 1948 Yarmouk Camp"

Except that Yarmouk wasn't established until 1957, UNRWA itself wasn't established until exactly a year after his D.O.B. Shouldn't his birthplace be labelled as Damascus? Checked source, nothing in there saying he was born in Yarmouk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.119.238.69 (talk) 15:06, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I looked into it for some time and it seems that Muhammad Zaidan was born in Safed but fled with his family to Syria and grew up in Yarmouk. By the way, several Palestinian refugee camps were established before UNRWA was. --IRISZOOM (talk) 13:36, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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add image file:Muhammad_Zaidan.jpg. Letterburner (talk) 18:38, 11 September 2017 (UTC) Letterburner (talk) 18:38, 11 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Cannot add an image that lacks proper licensing, please find one that follows Wikipedia's image copyright rules. SparklingPessimist ^{Scream at me!} 19:18, 11 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I request to change a term on arictle about (the capture of) Muhammad Zaidan. He was not killed by "American Special Forces" (which I realize is a broad term used by many people, yet is incorrect) but rather "Naval Special Warfare Development Group" (DEVGRU aka SEAL Team SIX). "American Special Forces" as stated in the article is a term used to refer ONLY to the US ARMY Special Forces / Green Berets. My source is the Mike Drop Podcast E:68 at 1:22:00 Thanks! KingPing2002 (talk) 16:06, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I meant to say captured instead of killed, of course. KingPing2002 (talk) 16:11, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done Not a proven reliable source. Contradicts extant literature placing organization in JSOC. Iseult^Δxparlez moi 16:28, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

STOP. Who's not a reliable "proven" source? They guy who was there? You must be kidding... Contradicts placing what organization in JSOC? An impudent mistake was made in the writing of the article and you ought to change it - simple KingPing2002 (talk) 19:13, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done Let me establish a few things. There is, first of all, plenty of literature categorizing DEVGRU as special forces either as a description of their role and capability or merely administratively being placed under JSOC [1] [2]. You'd need significantly more than a mention in a podcast by an obscure person to overrule this and consensus, on which this project works. You'd also need to prove affirmatively that the term as used not just officially, if that might even be the case, but in practice, is neither common nor correct. Iseult^Δxparlez moi 23:57, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just 'cause a lot of literature states something doesn't mean its correct... but okay, continue gatekeeping... Anybody that knows anything about the US military is going to cringe at the INCORRECT use of the term "special forces" but by all means, since you seem to know it all, keep doing a disservice to the public through your unwillingness to correct this hilarious mistake, homie

DOL KingPing2002 (talk) 11:52, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]