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| Middle East |
| Iraqi hard boys helped Abu Nidal depart the land of the living... |
| 2002-08-20 |
| Abu Nidal, whose body was reportedly found 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 |
| #3 "It was just business, Mike" |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-08-20 12:41:45 |
| #2 Or maybe he was hired by the Iraqi opposition? Or was suspected of being hired by them? Wonder if the al-Sabahs in Kuwait are anticipating getting a little revenge (it's a Muslim virtue) on Sammy for the "young revolutionaries" wheeze from the Gulf War? I also wonder if Abu Nidal's sudden and tragic demise might not have been the result of a little disinformation supplied to a certain shoot-first-investigate-later dictator? |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-08-20 12:00:17 |
| #1 There's also a Reuters article on this at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=3&cid=578&u=/nm/20020820/ts_nm/mideast_abunidal_dc_17 which claims that Abu Nidal "had opened channels to Iraqi guerrillas in Syria and Jordan opposed to President Saddam Hussein." Would these be pro-Iranian Hizbollah? |
| Posted by: Brian Hoffman 2002-08-20 10:39:09 |