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King Hussein now had the added headache of becoming host to the PLO, the Palestinian resistance movement. This was a headache for him because the PLO would launch attacks into Israel from their headquarters in Jordan; as a result inviting Israeli reprisal attacks on Jordanian soil. The PLO became so prominent in Jordan that they were in essence able to form a state within a state, violating local laws, shooting at Jordanian soldiers. King Hussein’s very authority was under threat from the powerful Palestinian groups. By September 1970, the inevitable conflict of interests culminated into open warfare. In the events that have since been referred to as Black September, the PLO were routed out of the capital Amman within 2 weeks, and by the summer of 1971, all of the PLO members were expelled from Jordan; moving their bases to Lebanon.

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