Abu Nidal Bloody Purge of Ranks Told
The Abu Nidal terrorist group has killed more than 150 of its members, including 20 top officials, in an internal power struggle, the New York Times reported today.
Nearly all 20 leaders were killed in Abu Nidal’s own house in Libya, the newspaper said, quoting dissident leaders of the group, officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Arab diplomats.
Abu Nidal’s group, the Fatah Revolutionary Council, is headquartered in Libya, where most of the killings took place, the paperreported. The group opposes the PLO leadership of Yasser Arafat and broke with the group.
Virtually all the leaders killed were “lured to Abu Nidal’s house near Tripoli on the pretext of discussing policy matters, taken by surprise and killed in the house,” according to a report written by Abdul-Rahman Issa, a former member of the council’s 10-man politburo, and quoted by the Times.
“Then, they were buried right there. Abu Nidal and his hirelings poured the cement over their bodies themselves,” the report said.
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