[2] Abu Bakr resigned from the PLO in February 1985 when the PLO leader Yasser Arafat and the Jordanian ruler King Hussein signed an agreement which allowed the king to make negotiations with Israel representing the Palestinians.
[2] He was appointed director of the political department in the ANO's Fatah Revolutionary Council in 1985 and served in the post until 1987.
[4] Then Abu Bakr was named as the spokesman of the Fatah Revolutionary Council.
[5] He left the ANO in November 1989 while serving as the spokesman of the Fatah Revolutionary Council.
[6][7] His defection occurred one year after the bombing of a passenger plane by the ANO.