Guess who just showed up dead in Baghdad?
Good ole Abu Nidal. Anybody remember Abu? Fine guy, nice fella, and living in Baghdad no less, fancy that. ;o}
cnn.com
Abu Nidal 'dead in Iraq' - report
August 19, 2002 Posted: 6:37 AM EDT (1037 GMT)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -- Abu Nidal, a Palestinian guerrilla leader and long-time enemy of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, was found dead from gunshot wounds in his Baghdad home, senior Palestinian sources said on Monday.
Abu Nidal, 65, had a reputation as one of the most ruthless Palestinian guerrilla commanders.
The Palestinian sources confirmed a report in the Palestinian Al-Ayyam newspaper which said on Monday Abu Nidal's death was apparently a suicide and occurred three days ago.
The militant leader, Sabri al-Bana, was widely known by his nom de guerre Abu Nidal as the head of the Fatah-The Revolutionary Council group that broke with the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1974, saying it was too moderate.
His group was considered responsible for dozens of attacks in 20 countries against Middle Eastern, European and U.S. targets which killed hundreds of people, including PLO officials.
He was sentenced to death in absentia by a Fatah military court. In 1982, his group tried to assassinate Israel's ambassador to Britain, setting off Israel's invasion of Lebanon to root out Palestinian guerrilla groups.
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