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- But counterterrorism experts in the Middle East say Abu Nidal remains a significant threat.
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May 27, 2009 · In the mid-1980s, the group was seen as the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization, but some experts say the group is inactive and no longer poses much of a threat.
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The Abu Nidal Organization (ANO; Arabic: منظمة أبو نضال Munaẓẓamat Abu Nidal), officially Fatah – Revolutionary Council (فتح – المجلس الثوري Fatah al-Majles al-Thawry), was a Palestinian militant group founded by Abu Nidal in 1974.
Apr 24, 2023 · The chapter on counter-terrorism in the late 1980s, mentions ‘the most active and brutal international terrorist group of the time, the Abu Nidal Organisation (ANO),' which 'threatened a series of attacks on British interests' in an attempt to force the release of the gunmen responsible for the 1982 shooting of Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassad...
- Tom Griffin
TUNIS -- Palestinian extremist Abu Nidal, who repeatedly has been written off in recent years as dead or dying, reportedly is struggling to rebuild his badly shaken organization, once widely...
Jan 27, 1999 · But counterterrorism experts in the Middle East say Abu Nidal remains a significant threat. One official who has watched Abu Nidal for years said, ''Osama bin Laden is a student by...
Although Abu Nidal was vigorously opposed to moderate Palestinian factions, his indiscriminate brutality served to indelibly frame the PLO as a terrorist organization. Abu Nidal also launched intermittent attacks at Israeli and Jewish targets overseas.
Abu Nidal began to move his organization out of Syria to Libya in the summer of 1986, arriving there in March 1987. In June that year the Syrian government expelled him, in part because of the Hindawi affair and Pan Am Flight 73 hijacking.
