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...Before the Bin Laden group emerged, terrorist organizations in the Mideast depended on states to sponsor their activities. The notorious PLO dissident Abu Nidal, for example, might carry out attacks on behalf of Syria, Libya or other sponsors, as would the Venezuelan "Carlos the Jackal," currently in prison in France. Similarly, the Lebanese Hezbollah militia has depended on backing from Iran and a nod and a wink from Syria. Hezbollah, of course, has primarily waged a guerrilla war against Israel in southern Lebanon, but it has also been a suspect in terrorist attacks both inside Lebanon and abroad. But unlike...
...Libyan leader has not only agreed to cooperate with the Pan Am trial; he has also signaled through official and unofficial channels that he is ready to do business with Washington. For starters, he has booted a number of radicals out of his country, including the infamous Abu Nidal. It may come as a surprise to those who remember the '80s--when Libya was implicated in the bombing of a discotheque in Germany that killed two American servicemen--to hear a senior U.S. official say, "At this moment, [Gaddafi is] out of the terrorism business...
...before anyone jumps to the conclusion that these connections could lead straight to Bin Laden's lair, it's worth remembering that his organization is far less centralized than those of previous high-profile terrorists, such as the Palestinian Abu Nidal. After all, Bin Laden is less of a CEO and more the head of a loosely grouped holding company. He built his network by putting his considerable resources as a funder and fund-raiser at the center of an international movement to recruit fighters from throughout the Arab world to help Afghanistan resist the Soviet invasion. Those fighters became...
Ever since his arrest five months ago, there has been speculation about how infamous Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal ended up in Egyptian custody. Egyptian authorities refuse even to acknowledge they have the man whose terror organization killed or wounded some 900 people during the 1970s and '80s, but U.S. intelligence sources tell TIME they believe there's a mundane explanation at the heart of his capture--greed. Abu Nidal has assets in real estate and foreign bank accounts that the CIA estimated in 1990 was worth $200 million. But now Abu Nidal, who had been living in Libya, has cancer...
...source says officials of both the Palestinian Authority and Egypt are eager to deny putting a hand on Abu Nidal for fear of retaliation by his followers, who are well trained, armed and scattered around the gulf and North Africa. The source doubts the story that Abu Nidal is ill with leukemia and suspects the Egyptians cooked that up to cover themselves. He also notes that the Palestinian Authority informed the U.S. when Abu Nidal was apprehended...