Word: bana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprise, Khaled charges that the organizer of the Rome and Vienna attacks was Abu Nidal, nom de guerre of a renegade Palestinian named Sabry Khalil Bana, and that Syria was at least indirectly implicated. Khaled's detailed description of Nidal's operations has led to a recommendation that Nidal be indicted as the organizer of the airport tragedy. A final decision on the indictment will be made later this year...
...claim and promising further attacks against U.S. targets "across the world" was later delivered to Beirut newspapers. Qassam was slain by the British during a revolt in Palestine in 1936. His name has frequently been used by terrorist factions linked to Abu Nidal, whose real name is Sabry Khalil Bana and who officially broke away from Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah organization...
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...