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Iraqi hard boys helped Abu Nidal depart the land of the living...
Abu Nidal, whose body was reportedly found shot full of holes in a Baghdad apartment over the weekend, was killed by Iraqi agents, the London-based Al Sharq Al Awsat reported Tuesday. According to this report, the Iraqi assassins fired four bullets at Abu Nidal, after Baghdad had discovered he had relations with the Kuwaiti authorities.
Oh, really? That's interesting. Wonder what kind of... relations they were?
The newspaper quoted a Palestinian source in Ramallah as saying he had spoken with a member of Abu Nidal’s group. The source told him that two armed men killed Abu Nidal during a Friday afternoon raid of his home, where he had been staying with four of his people in Baghdad. The source added that Abu Nidal and his accompanies, who were in the apartment at the time, were surprised to see the armed men enter the apartment, and that he was killed following an exchange of fire.
I'm usually surprised when armed men come barging into my apartment, too. I always wonder if something's wrong...
The source further added that the Iraqis had also arrested part of Abu Nidal’s group, and that they were pursuing searches for additional members. Moreover, the Palestinian source claimed that a few members of Abu Nidal’s group, who managed to escape Baghdad, might arrive either Tuesday or Wednesday in Amman.
That's if they make it out of Iraq. So the Mukhabarat's cracking down on Abu Nidal's entire organization? But what were they chatting with Kuwait about? It's not like we'd have tolerated them moving from Baghdad to Kuwait and changing sides. It's a little late for that...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-08-20
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