The most successful deradicalisation program in history is considered to be the pacification of the Black September Organisation in the 1970s, the fearsome, violent wing of the PLO. The methods used by Arafat in his attempt for mainstream appeal were simple but effective: find beautiful women for them to marry, pay them to have many children and acquire for them prestigious property in Lebanon.
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