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These people rejected the Soviet Union and Arab states close to it (The pro-Syrian Ba"ath, Algeria, Libya and South Yemen). They resented Yasser Arafat’s rapprochement with Moscow and the PLO’s progressive drift towards “third-worldist” leftwing rhetoric. Most had studied in the United States or at the American University of Beirut in the late 1950s.
Yashruti’s faction had the backing of the First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Bakr/Saddam Hussein Ba"athist government in Baghdad and was generally favorable to United States involvement in the Middle-East as a counterweight to the growing influence of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Israel.
In parallel to his political activities, Khaled worked as a civil engineer and real estate entrepreneur in Lebanon. He died in 1970 in an accidenta huge crane fell on him while he was inspecting construction works in downtown Beirut.
Some Palestinian and Lebanese journalists argued this was not an accident, but murder.
