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Abu Nidal. Sabri Khalil al-Banna ( Arabic: صبري خليل البنا; May 1937 – 16 August 2002), known by his nom de guerre Abu Nidal ("father of struggle"), [1] was a Palestinian militant. He was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council (Arabic: فتح المجلس الثوري ), a militant Palestinian splinter group more ...
Jul 20, 1998 · The Telegraph - Abu Nidal; The New York Times - Abu Nidal: Life of a P.L.O. Renegade; The Guardian - Mystery death of Abu Nidal, once the world's most wanted terrorist; The Economist - Abu Nidal; Independent - Abu Nidal, notorious Palestinian mercenary, 'was a US spy'
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The Abu Nidal Organization ( ANO; Arabic: منظمة أبو نضالMunaẓẓamat Abu Nidal ), officially Fatah – Revolutionary Council ( فتح – المجلس الثوريFatah al-Majles al-Thawry ), was a Palestinian militant group founded by Abu Nidal in 1974. It broke away from Fatah, a faction within the Palestine Liberation ...
May 27, 2009 · The Abu Nidal Organization—named for its leader Sabri al-Banna, a veteran Palestinian terrorist known by the nom de guerre Abu Nidal—is a secular international terrorist group that has been ...
Jun 21, 2005 · Sometime after the 1967 Six-Day War, Abu Nidal joined Yasser Arafat’s Fatah arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He rose quickly through the ranks and in 1970 opened a P.L.O. office in ...
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, but said by the Iraqi government to have committed suicide. The Guardian wrote on the news of his death: “He was the patriot turned psychopath.
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Jan 1, 1986 · Abu Nidal's first operation occurred on Sept. 5, 1973, when five of his men occupied the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Paris and took 11 members of the staff hostage. The gunmen were eventually flown ...
