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Abu Nidal
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Palestinian militant, founder of Fatah (1937–2002)
Key facts
- Born
- Sabri Khalil al-Banna , ( 1937-05-00 ) May 1937, Jaffa , Mandatory Palestine
- Died
- 16 August 2002 (2002-08-16) (aged 65), Baghdad , Ba'athist Iraq
- Resting place
- Al-Karakh Islamic cemetery, Baghdad
- Organization
- Fatah: The Revolutionary Council (known as the Abu Nidal Organization )
- Political party
- Ba'ath Party (1955–1967), Fatah (1967–1974), Fatah Revolutionary Council (1974–2002)
- Movement
- Rejectionist Front
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Iraq
- Place of birth
- Jaffa
- Place of death
- Baghdad
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- Cairo University
- Political party
- Abu Nidal Organization
- Religion
- Islam
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- cause of death
- gunshot wound
- date of death
- 2002-08-16
- date of birth
- 1937-05-00
- name in kana
- アブー・ニダール
- described at URL
- baike.sogou.com/v10930859.htm
- name in native language
- صبري خليل البنا
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Encyclopedic overview
Sabri Khalil al-Banna (Arabic: صبري خليل البنا; May 1937 – 16 August 2002), known by his nom de guerre Abu Nidal ("father of struggle"), was a Palestinian militant. He was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council (Arabic: فتح المجلس الثوري), a militant Palestinian splinter group more commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO). Abu Nidal formed the ANO in October 1974 after splitting from Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Abu Nidal is believed to have ordered attacks in 20 countries, killing over 300 and injuring over 650 while acting as a freelance contractor. The group's operations included the Rome and Vienna airport attacks on 27 December 1985, when gunmen opened fire on passengers in simultaneous shootings at El Al ticket counters, killing 20. At the height of its militancy in the 1970s and 1980s, the ANO was widely regarded as the most ruthless of the Palestinian groups. Palestinian leadership long suspected that Israeli Mossad had infiltrated the ANO, with Abu Nidal himself allegedly having been on the CIA payroll.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abu Nidal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.