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	Encyclopedia: Abu Nidal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abu Nidal in 1976 in a photograph released by the Israeli army, one of only a handful of photographs of him known to exist.
		Abu Nidal died of between one and four gunshot wounds in Baghdad in August 2002, believed by Palestinian sources to have been killed on the orders of Saddam Hussein, [2] but said by the Iraqi government to have committed suicide.
		Abu Nidal's international notoriety reached its apogee in the late 1980s, with such activities as the machine-gun and grenade attack on a synagogue in Istanbul and the onslaught on the El Al counters at Rome and Vienna airports.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Abu-Nidal (1060 words)

	Abu Nidal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abu Nidal was born in the port of Jaffa.
		Abu Nidal was born in May 1937 in the port of Jaffa on the Mediterranean coast of what was then the British Mandate of Palestine.
		Abu Nidal is known to have entered Iraq in 1999 after being expelled from Libya by Muammar Gadaffi, who was distancing himself from terrorism in an effort to re-establish diplomatic relations with the U.S. and UK after Lockerbie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abu_Nidal (3220 words)

	Abu Nidal: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abu Nidal was described by those who knew him at the time as a tidy, well-organized leader, not a guerrilla.
		Abu Nidal's absence from Jordan during this period, where it was clear that Hussein might be about to act against the Palestinians, raised the suspicion within the movement that his requests for posts to Sudan and Iraq had been intended only to save his own skin.
		According to The Sunday Times, Abu Nidal even came to believe that his own wife worked for the CIA (An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ab/abu_nidal.htm (2267 words)

	Abu Nidal
		Abu Nidal was an offshoot of the Palestine Liberation Organization, formed in 1974 by a militant named Abu Nidal, ironically enough.
		Nidal was a member of the Palestinian branch of the Ba'ath Party, where he became radicalized (or "oppressed" depending on your point of view).
		Interestingly, the Abu Nidal Group was one of the few terrorist organizations known to have actually been supported by Saddam Hussein, unlike al Qaeda, despite one of the centerpiece claims made by George W Bush to justify his 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/terrorists/abu-nidal (1007 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Abu Nidal
		Abu Nidal probably gained some experience of terrorist operations through his connection with Abu Da'ud, a fellow member of the delegation to Baghdad and subsequently a senior figure in Black September, the Fatah terrorist arm which carried out the attack on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
		Abu Nidal's enthusiasm for armed operations was reinforced by four months spent on a course in guerrilla tactics in North Korea and China.
		Abu Nidal's men played an important role in disrupting these moves with attacks, including the assassination in 1984 of a Jordanian diplomat in Bucharest, the bombing in 1985 of the British Airways offices in Madrid and Rome, and the murder in April 1985 of an exiled Palestinian West Bank mayor in Rome.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/20/db2001.xml (1542 words)

	Guardian \| Abu Nidal
		The child is father of the man, and Abu Nidal was not the only ogre of our times who, as grown man, took terrible, disproportionate revenge on his fellow men for the sufferings of his infancy.
		He and Colonel Gadafy were instant buddies - Abu Nidal called Gadafy "the latter-day Saladin", and, in return, was showered with favours of all kinds, the use of planes, embassies, diplomatic pouches, free apartments, and even a couple of farms to remind him of the orange groves of his youth.
		But Abu Nidal was too smart and ruthless for them; he regained control with a purge, carried out by his committee for revolutionary justice, in which some 600 men, almost a third of his org- anisation, were murdered in Lebanon and Libya.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4484907-103684,00.html (2381 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Saddam killed Abu Nidal over al-Qa'eda row
		Abu Nidal, the Palestinian terrorist, was murdered on the orders of Saddam Hussein after refusing to train al-Qa'eda fighters based in Iraq, The Telegraph can reveal.
		Despite claims by Iraqi officials that Abu Nidal committed suicide after being implicated in a plot to overthrow Saddam, Western diplomats now believe that he was killed for refusing to reactivate his international terrorist network.
		Abu Nidal worked closely with Saddam during the late 1970s and early 1980s to carry out a number of terrorist outrages in the Middle East and Europe, including the attempted assassination of the Israeli ambassador to London in 1982.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/25/wnidal25.xml (594 words)

	Court tries Abu Nidal in absentia for murder of diplomat; accomplice pleads not guilty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abu Nidal and three of his alleged accomplices are still fugitives while the prime suspect, Yasser Mohammad Salameh Abu Shennar who allegedly killed the embassy's first secretary, appeared in court yesterday.
		Abu Nidal, 63, sentenced to death by the PLO, is said to be residing in Iraq.
		The Abu Nidal group is accused of assassinating or kidnapping several Jordanian diplomats in the 1980s and early 1990s, especially in the Lebanese arena in the throes of the 1975-1990 civil war.
	www.jordanembassyus.org /06132001002.htm (450 words)

	Michael Ledeen on Abu Nidal on National Review Online
		Abu Nidal is usually portrayed (falsely, as it turns out) as a nutty extremist who broke off from Yasser Arafat's PLO to create his own, more violent organization.
		Even afterwards, Abu Nidal remained a force to be reckoned with — his organization reached as far as the United States.
		It may well be that the Abu Nidal Organization still serves as a significant hub for the terrorist groups, and as a conduit between the terrorist groups and Saddam's intelligence apparatus in Baghdad.
	www.nationalreview.com /ledeen/ledeen082002.asp (1188 words)

	Portsmouth Herald World News: Iraq claims terrorist leader committed suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abu Nidal was rushed to hospital where he died eight hours later, Haboush said, without specifying what day he died.
		Iraqi officials investigated Abu Nidal’s whereabouts and a group of security officers was sent to his apartment with orders to bring him to court, he said.
		Abu Nidal moved around the Middle East as one state after another indicated he was not welcome.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2002news/08222002/world/20426.htm (875 words)

	Terrorism - In the Spotlight: Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
		Nidal was soon sentenced to death, in absentia, by the PLO for plotting to kill Arafat, latter setting up his own Fatah Revolutionary Council as a counterforce to be also known as the ANO.
		At Nidal's initiative, terror attacks increased during the 1970s, although the range and intensity of his activities were constantly subject to the nature of the regional geopolitics.
		On Aug. 14, 2002, Nidal's house in Baghdad was raided by Iraqi forces, and on Sept. 16, he was announced dead at the age of 65.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/ano-pr.cfm (890 words)

	Fatah - the Revolutionary Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abu Nidal then moved to Ba'th-ruled Iraq where he set up the Fatah-RC, which soon began a vicious string of terrorist attacks.
		Fatah-RC is believed to have assassinated PLO deputy chief Abu Iyad and PLO security chief Abu Hul in Tunis in January 1991.
		Abu Nidal lived in Baghdad from the 1990s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abu_Nidal_Organization (771 words)

	Fatah - Revolutionary Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the beginning of the 1980s, after disagreements between the Iraqis and Abu Nidal over the independence of his organization and Iraq's interest during the war with Iran to improve its relations with the West, Abu Nidal and his men were expelled from Iraq and moved to Syria.
		Sabri al-Bana (Abu Nidal) was born in 1939 in Jaffa.
		On 26 October 1973 Abu Nidal was sentenced by Fatah, in absentia, to death, officially for "embezzlement and misuse of authority", but in reality for an attempt on Arafat's life.
	www.ict.org.il /inter_ter/orgdet.cfm?orgid=2 (1946 words)

	Abu Nidal
		Abu Nidal Organization is an international terrorist group led by Sabri al-Banna.
		Abu Nidal Organization has carried out a number of successful terrorist attacks that resulted in the death of over 900 people.
		In the August of 2002, the leader of Abu Nidal Organization (Sabri al-Banna) was killed in Baghdad, Iraq.
	www.iraqinews.com /org_abu-nidal.shtml (379 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Iraq confirms Abu Nidal's death
		Abu Nidal was head of a hard-line splinter group, the Fatah-Revolutionary Council, which was blamed for carrying out a string of attacks in Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s and 1980s - killing and wounding hundreds of people.
		Abu Nidal was widely believed to have been living in Baghdad since some time in 1999, although the Iraqi Government never acknowledged this.
		Abu Nidal is said to have established contacts with what the Iraqis described as Kuwaitis plotting against Iraq, the official said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2206187.stm (496 words)

	Abu Nidal - The Sooner the Better
		Abu Nidal was for many years the symbol of international terrorism.
		Abu Nidal’s last operations included the assassination of a Jordanian diplomat in Lebanon in 1994, the elimination of two of his own members in Lebanon for embezzlement (1997) and the alleged assassination of the Egyptian fundamentalist, Sheik Moutaleb in Yemen in July of this year.
		However the apprehension of Abu Nidal in Egypt would be an outstanding achievement in the fight against international terrorism, and must end with him being tried publicly for the many atrocities for which he was responsible.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=48 (1201 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. welcomes news of Abu Nidal's death - August 19, 2002
		Reeker said the fact Nidal apparently died in Iraq was further proof of Iraq's support of terrorism.
		Abu Nidal, 65, whose real name was Sabri al-Banna, had a reputation as one of the most ruthless Palestinian guerrilla commanders.
		Nidal and his group have been blamed for more than 90 terrorist attacks that killed more than 300 people and wounded 600 others.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/08/19/mideast.nidal (415 words)

	Abu Nidal
		Abu Nidal, whose real name is Sabri l-Banna, has for the last 25 years been one of the figures in the Middle East who most often changed sides.
		1985: Abu Nidal is employed to hinder an agreement between Jordan, Israel and the PLO.
		Abu Nidal is since then believed to have moved to Libya.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/abu_nidal.htm (400 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		Abu Nidal hated Israel ("It is a crime to allow the Zionists to leave our land alive"), the United States ("Were it not for American support, the Zionist ghost would have long vanished from the world arena") and Arab leaders who have engaged politically with Israel or the West.
		Abu Nidal sometimes referred to these leaders as "Zionists who are not Jews," and they were the target of many of the ANO's attacks.
		Abu Nidal Organization was not a religious group, and Sabri I-Banna was primarily motivated by anger over the displacement of his family from Palestinian land during the 1948 Israeli War of Independence.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=1 (564 words)

	Robert Fisk Article: 22nd August, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Followers of Abu Nidal have rejected a claim by Iraq that the Palestinian guerrilla leader killed himself when Iraqi security men went to his Baghdad apartment to arrest him and put him on trial for entering Iraq illegally.
		There were rumours, too, that Abu Nidal had been in touch with Saudi and Kuwaiti intelligence officials and that there were plans in his house for an American invasion of Iraq.
		For years afterwards, Abu Nidal attacked Tariq Aziz in his Fatah Revolutionary Council newspapers, claiming he was in league with the Pope to destroy the Arabs.
	www.robert-fisk.com /articles111.htm (617 words)

	Abu Nidal Dead
		All in all, Abu Nidal was accused of having killed or injured almost 900 people in attacks in 20 countries since 1974, was wanted in the U.S., Great Britain and Italy, and was even condemned to death by the PLO, which he left in 1972.
		Abu Nidal's body was found three days ago with several bullet wounds, and the assumption is he committed suicide, said two senior Palestinian officials in Ramallah who spoke on condition of anonymity.
		Abu Nidal was born in Jaffa in 1937 when the area was part of British-governed Palestine.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/735579/posts (1744 words)

	Encyclopedia Of The Palestinians: Biography Of Abu Nidal- Sabri al-Bana
		Abu Nidal was not known as a strong advocate of any particular ideology, although his activities against the Jordanian government landed him in jail.
		In 1969, Abu Nidal was appointed the Fatah representative in Sudan.
		In the early 1990s, Abu Nidal tried to wrest control of the refugee camps in Sidon from Yasir Arafat, but he failed, and that failure led to the almost total dissolution of his organization in Lebanon and to the defection of more of his aides to Fatah.
	www.palestineremembered.com /Jaffa/Jaffa/Story163.html (989 words)

	Friends of Liberty - Report: Abu Nidal found dead in apparent suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abu Nidal, whose real name is Sabri Al Banna, broke off from the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1974, claiming that the PLO was too moderate.
		Abu Nidal is said to have lived at various times in Iraq, Syria, Algeria, Libya and Sudan.
		Abu Nidal was tried in absentia by a Fatah military court and condemned to death.
	www.friendsofliberty.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=54 (295 words)

	Possible Arrest of Abu Nidal in Egypt
		The paper said that, according to unnamed Egyptian sources, Abu Nidal was arrested when he entered Egypt using false documentation.
		A report of Abu Nidal’s arrest was published by the German news agency DPA as well.
		Abu Nidal, has not been seen for well over a year, and is believed to be in poor health.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=138 (132 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Abu Nidal Killed in Bagdad, Palestinian Reports Say
		Abu Nidal, a Palestinian linked to bombings and assassinations around the world since the 1970's, was found dead in Iraq, a Palestinian newspaper, Al Ayyam, reported today.
		Abu Nidal, who would be about 65, has been a rival to Yasir Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization.
		Abu Nidal, who was born Sabri al-Banna in Jaffa, is accused by Washington of having killed or injured 900 people in attacks in 20 countries since 1974.
	www.truthout.org /docs_02/08.21B.abu.nidal.htm (476 words)

	Terrorism: Q & A \| Abu Nidal Organization (Iraq, extremists)
		Abu Nidal, which means “father of the struggle” in Arabic, is the alias of Sabri al-Banna, who was born in 1937 into a landowning family in British-ruled Palestine.
		Abu Nidal represented al-Fatah—the dominant faction of the PLO, led by Yasir Arafat—in Sudan and later Iraq.
		Abu Nidal, who continued to advocate Israel’s destruction, accused the PLO of selling out and set up his own organization, the Fatah Revolutionary Council—signifying that he saw his group as the true heir to Arafat’s Fatah movement.
	www.cfrterrorism.org /groups/abunidal.html (737 words)

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