{{Short description|Palestinian politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Rakad Salem | image = | office = Secretary-General of the [[Arab Liberation Front]] | term_start = | term_end = | president = | prime_minister = | deputy = | predecessor = | successor = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|1|1}} | birth_place = [[Al-Kabri]], [[Mandatory Palestine]] | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = [[Palestine]]<br>[[Iraq]] | party = [[Arab Liberation Front]] | other_party = [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region]] | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Journalist<br>Politician | profession = | signature = | website = | native_name = ركاد سالم | native_name_lang = ar }} '''Rakad Mahmoud Salameh Salem''' ({{langx|ar|ركاد محمود سلامة سالم}}; [[kunya (arabic)|kunya]], '''Abu Mahmoud''') is an [[Iraq]]i-[[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] politician and longtime Secretary-General of the [[Arab Liberation Front]] (ALF), an [[Iraq]]i-controlled [[Ba'th]]ist faction of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO). He was also [[editor-in-chief]] of the movement's monthly magazine, ''Sawt al-Jamahir'' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]], ''Voice of the masses'').
He lives in [[Bir Zeit]] in the [[West Bank]], but was previously active in [[Lebanon]] during the [[Lebanese Civil War]] as commander of the ALF's military wing. He holds Iraqi [[citizenship]]. In 2001, he was arrested by [[Israel]]i forces on suspicion of having transferred money from the Iraqi government to families of Palestinian [[suicide bomber]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/eng_n/saddam.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-01-14 |archive-date=2017-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011173432/http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/eng_n/saddam.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} {{Ba'ath Party}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Salem, Rakad}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Palestine Liberation Organization members]] [[Category:Iraqi people of Palestinian descent]] [[Category:Arab Liberation Front politicians]] [[Category:Palestinian Arab nationalists]] [[Category:1944 births]]