Abu Nidal Linked to Many Attacks
Abu Nidal’s radical Palestinian faction has been blamed for killing hundreds of people since the mid-1970s. Some of the most notorious attacks he has been linked to:
January 1994: Jordanian diplomat Naeb Imran Maaytah is shot to death in Beirut.
January 1991: Two of Yasser Arafat’s top aides are slain in Tunis, Tunisia, the PLO’s headquarters-in-exile.
July 1988: Five gunmen attack the Greek cruise ship City of Poros near Athens, killing nine people.
September 1986: Two gunmen open fire on the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey, during Sabbath services, killing 22 worshipers.
September 1986: A Pan Am jet is hijacked in Karachi, Pakistan. Twenty-two people are killed when security forces storm the plane.
December 1985: Twenty people are killed in simultaneous attacks on El Al ticket desks at Rome and Vienna airports.
November 1985: An Egyptian airliner with 97 passengers is hijacked to Malta by four gunmen. Commandos later storm the plane. Sixty people on board die.
June 1982: Israel’s ambassador in London, Shlomo Argov, is critically wounded by gunmen. The incident helps trigger Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.
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