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Abu Nidal
(
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)
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Born
| Sabri Khalil al-Banna
(
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)
May 1937
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Died
| 16 August 2002 (age 65)
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Resting place
| al-Karakh's
Islamic
cemetery, Baghdad, in a grave marked "M7"
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Nationality
| Palestinian
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Alma mater
| Cairo University
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Occupation
| Militant
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Political party
| Fatah ? The Revolutionary Council (
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)
known as the Abu Nidal Organization, part of the Palestinian
rejectionist front
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Spouse
| Hiyam al-Bita
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Children
| One son, two daughters
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Parent
| Hajj Khalil al-Banna (father)
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Abu Nidal
(
Arabic
:
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) (May 1937 ? 16 August 2002), born
Sabri Khalil al-Banna
(
Arabic
:
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), was the founder of Fatah ? The Revolutionary Council (
Arabic
:
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), a militant
Palestinian
separatist group also known as the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO).
[1]
At the height of his power in the 1970s and 1980s, Abu Nidal was mostly known as the most merciless of the Palestinian political leaders.
[2]
He told
Der Spiegel
in a rare interview in 1985: "I am the evil spirit which moves around only at night causing ... nightmares."
[3]
- ↑
Melman 1986, p. 213.
The Guardian
said that he was born in 1939;
The Times
said 1940; the Truman Institute of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
gave his birth year as 1934.
Issam Sartawi
told
Yossi Melman
it was 1936. Melman says it was 1937.
- There is also disagreement about his name. The
Daily Telegraph
has written that he was Hasan Sabri al-Banna; the
Middle East International
has said he was Muhammad Sabri al-Banna. Stewart Steven says in his writing about the
Mossad
, that he was Sabri Khalil al-Banna or Mazan Sabri al-Banna. The name Khalil comes from his father; it is an Arab tradition that the father's name be added to the son's name. Al-Banna means "the mason" (Melman 1986, pp. 44?45). He was also known as Amin al-Sirr and Sabri Khalil Abd Al Qadir.
- ↑
See, for example:
- MacAskill, Ewen and Nelsson, Richard.
"Mystery death of Abu Nidal, once the world's most wanted terrorist"
,
The Guardian
, 20 August 2002.
- Melman, Yossi.
The Master Terrorist: The True Story Behind Abu Nidal
, Mama Books, 1986, p. 4.
- McLaughlin, Abraham.
"A matter of ethics for cloak-and-dagger set"
,
The Christian Science Monitor
, 5 October 2001.
- "Abu Nidal Organization"
, Council on Foreign Relations, October 2005.
- "
"Council Decision"
"
(PDF)
. Archived from the original on 2008-03-07
. Retrieved
2014-01-23
.
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, Council of the European Union, 21 December 2005.
- ↑
Melman 1986, p. 3.