Абу Нидаль: Террорист и его организация

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Abu Nidal (Sabri al Banna) was regarded as the most dangerous of the Palestinian political leaders. Abu Nidal, whose pseudonym means "father of struggle" (Abu meaning father and Nidal, a secular term, meaning "struggle" or "effort" in Arabic) was primarily active in the 1970s and 1980s in the left wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization and later the secular/rejectionist front, and was accused by Western and Arab sources of acting as a mercenary for various Arab governments. Most of its targets were Arab politicians, rivals, and activists they felt were soft on the Israeli issue, but Jews, as well as political representatives of Western nations were also targets, especially those involved in the peace process in the Middle East. Notably, ANO enacted a drastically violent policy towards its own members – executing some 600 members and their families in 1987.

September 5, 1972: Abu Nidal is believed to have been involved in the planning of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

September 5, 1973: Occupation of the Saudi embassy in Paris, in order to gain the release of Abu Daoud, then imprisoned in Jordan. November 25, 1973: KLM Flight 861 from Beirut to New York City and Tokyo hijacked over Iraqi airspace and diverted to Nicosia, Cyprus, then Valletta, Malta. Passengers and crew released. Claimed by the Arab Nationalist Youth Organization.

September 8, 1974: Bombing of TWA Flight 841. All 79 passengers died. October 1974: Aborted assassination attempt on Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. Following this he is sentenced to death in absentia by the PLO council. It is at this point that he founds the independent Abu Nidal Organisation. The attack left five people dead, including the leader of the group and four hostages. Another 34 hostages were wounded after a seven hour shootout. October 11, 1976: Attacks on the Syrian embassies in Islamabad and Rome, leaving one dead and two injured. November 17, 1976: ANO fighters stormed the Intercontinental Hotel in Amman, Jordan, taking several hostages. The hotel was stormed in turn by Jordanaian security forces, and three gunmen, two soldiers and two civilians were killed. The remaining attackers were executed shortly afterwards. December 1, 1976: Syrian foreign minister Abdul Halim Khaddam was shot and wounded in an attack on his car in Damascus. December 13, 1976: Foiled attack on the Syrian embassy in Istanbul.

January 4, 1978: Assassination of Said Hammami, PLO representative in London, United Kingdom. February 18, 1978: Egyptian journalist Yusuf Sibai was killed whilst acting as president of the Conference of the Organization for the Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America. 1978: Assassination of PLO representative in Brussels, Belgium. June 15, 1978: Assassination of Ali Yassin, PLO representative in Kuwait. August 3, 1978: Ezzedine Kalak, PLO representative to Paris, was assassinated along with an assistant. August 5, 1978: PLO offices in Islamabad were raided by ANO militants, leaving four dead and an unknown number of wounded. 1978: Assassination of PLO representative in Rome, Italy. 1978: Assassination of PLO representative in Madrid, Spain.