Word: abu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chairman Yasser Arafat. In the Syrian capital of Damascus, the P.L.O. faction known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the shooting. In Paris, however, a telephone caller to a Western news agency claimed responsibility for the shadowy terrorist organization headed by the notorious Abu Nidal...
Israeli authorities presumably believed they had caught a big fish: George Habash of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmed Jabril of the P.F.L.P. general command, or perhaps even Sabry Khalil Bana, better known as Abu Nidal, chief of the self-styled Fatah Revolutionary Council and the suspected mastermind behind countless terrorist attacks. But when the Israelis ordered passengers and crew to disembark from the commandeered craft, they discovered only a group of Syrian and Lebanese officials aboard. In what appeared to be a notable failure of Israel's highly vaunted intelligence services, the big fish had managed...
...selection of Sylvester Stallone as its Man of the Year hit Harvard like a bomb. Many have wondered what could have possessed these thespian dragsters to select a man with the social graces of Moamar Khadafy, the artistic integrity of Joan Collins, and the raw acting talent of Abu Nidal...
They said Abu Nidal did not attend the meeting but sent several representatives of his organization, which he calls the Fatah Revolutionary Council...
...Abu Moussa, who led an unsuccessful military campaign to oust Arafat from the PLO leadership, made clear to Khadafy outside the conference hall that he was not interested in joining a new terrorist campaign, the sources said...