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...Michael Davison, 29, was known to have fought in Arafat's P.L.O. force in Lebanon in 1982. So the most likely theory was that last week's hijackers, though they carried passports from Bahrain, were members of Arafat's Fatah organization. Others, however, believed that Renegade Palestinian Abu Nidal, implicated in several of last year's terrorist outrages, might have been responsible...
EGYPTAIR. Last December three Arab terrorists accused of belonging to the Libyan-supported Abu Nidal group diverted a Boeing 737 to Malta. After five passengers were shot and the captain pleaded for aid, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered a commando raid. In the attack, 58 of the 79 hostages left on the plane died. More than 40 were killed by burns or smoke inhalation from fires that the commando attack ignited...
...other hostages being held in Lebanon. A stenciled statement found near the bloodstained bodies said they had been killed in retaliation for the U.S. air strike against Libya. The statement was signed by the "Arab Revolutionary Cells," a group believed to be linked to the notorious terrorist Abu Nidal, who reportedly is in Libya...
...several civilians, destroying homes and damaging other buildings, including the French embassy and the Swiss Ambassador's residence. It seems highly coincidental, to say the least, that the bomb exploded only a few blocks from Libya's internal- security headquarters, reputedly a onetime haunt of the notorious terrorist Abu Nidal. U.S. officials insist, however, that the security facility was not a U.S. target...
...members of the Black September guerrillas who slaughtered eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games. Gaddafi has turned Libya into a kind of Palm Springs for despots and terrorists; he once provided a home for Idi Amin, as well as a safe haven for the Palestinian radical Abu Nidal, who allegedly masterminded the Rome and Vienna airport massacres...