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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE September 19, 1986
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Maybe you should.
Author/journalist calls Nidal
the world’s leading terrorist
With many experts linking arch-
terrorist Abu Nidal to the recent
attack which killed 21 Sabbath
worshippers in Turkey, the follow
ing report on a book detailing
. Nidal's activities and background
is especially timely. —Editor.
by Yitzhak Rabi
—NEW YORK
Israel flatly refused an American
invitation to participate in the aerial
attack against targets in Libya last
April.
So reports Israeli journalist Yossi
Melman in his newly published
book “The Master Terrorist: The
True Story Behind Abu Nidal”
(Adama Books, New York, $16.95).
“After the hijacking of the Achille
Lauro cruise ship by Palestinian
terrorists connected to the Abu
Nidal terrorist group and the kil
ling of the elderly American Leon
Klinghoffer, the United States and
Israel strengthened their intelli
gence cooperation,” Melman ex
plained in an interview with the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
“Before the attack on Libya the
Americans felt that if Israel joined
the operation, it is more likely to
succeed. But Israel refused, mainly
because it did not want to open a
new battle front in the Mediter
ranean.”
Israel’s refusal to join the attack
is one in a series of revelations
included in Melman’s book on the
international network of terrorism
headed by Abu Nidal and spon
sored by Syria and Libya.
According to Melman, diplomatic
correspondent of the Israeli daily
Davar, Abu Nidal is responsible
for more than 100 attacks in var
ious countries, including the Vienna
and Rome airport massacres last
December, the Achille Lauro hi
jacking and the aborted attempt to
blow up an El Al plane with a few
hundred passengers aboard, recent
ly in London.
Melman claims that Abu Nidal
replaced Karlos (“The Jackal ),
otherwise known as Ramiras Saaches,
as the world’s most dangerous and
violent terrorist. Karlos, Melman
believes, was “exterminated” by
his Libyan paymasters. “Since the
1976 attack on OPEC in Vienna,
Karlos was not heard of. He prob
ably knew too much and was done
away with by the Libyans,” Mel
man said.
Who is Abu Nidal, the terrorist
who threatened to kill President
Reagan and Queen Elizabeth of
Britain, and who attempted the
assassination of PLO leaderYasir
Arafat in 1974?
In the interview and in his book,
Melman portrays Abu Nidal as a
crafty, elusive and shrewd organ
izer of a small, yet effective terror
ist group of no more than 200
active members.
“Abu Nidal is very elusive. He
goes from Syria to Libya to South
Yemen, though his family, his wife,
son and two daughters, live in Iraq.
He is funded by Libya and Syria
and has a solid infrastructure of
supporters in Western Europe and
offices in Eastern Europe,” Mel
man said.
“Abu Nidal represents to most
the extreme, uncompromising ap
proach of the Palestinians to their
conflict with Israel. He believes
that the only solution to the con
flict with Israel can be achieved
through armed struggle and the
demise of the Jewish state. He is
fanatical and uncompromising.”
Even PLO chairman Yasir Ara
fat is too moderate for Abu Nidal.
After the 1967 Six-Day War Abu
Nidal joined the PLO, only to
leave it in 1973 during a heated
dispute with Arafat, who became
his bitter enemy. The Fatah, Ara
fat’s branch of the PLO, passed a
death sentence on Abu Nidal after
his failed attempt to assassinate
Arafat.
According to Melman, between
1978 and 1982 Abu Nidal and his
organization killed seven PLO of
ficials. In 1982, Melman noted,
Abu Nidal started attacking Israeli
targets in Europe.
On June 3, 1982, Abu Nidal’s
terrorists attacked and severely
wounded in London Israeli Ambas
sador Shlomo Argov. A few days
later, Israeli forces invaded
Lebanon, citing the attack in Lon
don as one of the reasons.
Melman contends that Abu
Nidal operates in a number of
East European capitals, with their
support. He has offices in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, and Bucharest, Ru
mania, and his henchmen even at
tacked Jordanian diplomats in
Rumania in 1985.
“No other terrorist organization
is tolerated by the East Europeans,”
Melman pointed out. “Abu Nidal
is an exception.” The reason? Abu
Nidal is the outlet and connection
of the Eastern bloc to terrorist
organizations outside which are
used to destabilize the West,” he
explained.
Abu Nidal was born Sabri-al
Banna in Jaffa in 1937, the son of a
wealthy businessman who had 13
wives and thousands of acres of
orchards. After the 1948 war, he
moved with his family to Gaza,
then to the West Bank and then to
Saudi Arabia and Iraq. A teacher
by profession, he also studied
engineering in Cairo, but did not
finish his studies. He called his
first-born son Nidal (struggle) and
later adopted the name Abu (father
of) Nidal.
According to Melman, Abu Nidal
has one brother and other relatives
who live in the West Bank.
Abu Nidal travels around the
world with scores of passports,
“but he never disguises his face,”
Melman asserts.
Melman expects the world to see
more of Abu Nidal’s atrocities.
“He is an obsessed terrorist who is
surely to commit more atrocities
sooner or later,” Melman said.
Copyright 1986. Jewish Telegraphic Agency Inc
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