Article :"Abu Nidal was murdered in August 2001"
NG:"One correction. Nidal suffered Arkancide in August 2002, not August 2001."
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You are absolutely right -- now that you mention it, I remember reading about it and it was way after the 9-11-01 attacks.
Baghdad confirms Abu Nidal's suicide, details today
Iraq-Palestine, Politics, 8/21/2002
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020821/2002082112.html ====
Abu Nidal 'suicide' mystery deepens
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/21/wnidal21.xml "A third version, by the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat, said Iraqi intelligence agents shot him dead with four bullets on Friday, wounding two of his bodyguards at the same time.
Abu Nidal, a Palestinian whose real name was Sabri al-Banna, was the most feared international terrorist of the 1970s and '80s when he launched attacks against Jewish and Arab targets.
Possibly the Iraqis removed him because he knew too many past secrets of state funding of international terrorism."