Iraqi secret police believed that the notorious Palestinian assassin Abu Nidal was working for the Americans as well as Egypt and Kuwait when they interrogated him in Baghdad only months before the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Hitherto secret documents which are now in the hands of The Independent – written by Saddam Hussein’s brutal security services for Saddam’s eyes only – state that he had been „colluding“ with the Americans and, with the help of the Egyptians and Kuwaitis, was trying to find evidence linking Saddam and al-Qa’ida.
President George Bush was to use claims of a relationship with al-Qa’ida as one of the reasons for his 2003 invasion, along with Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction. Western reports were to dismiss Iraq’s claim that Abu Nidal committed suicide in August 2002, suggesting that Saddam’s own security services murdered him when his presence became an embarrassment for them. The secret papers from Iraq suggest that he did indeed kill himself after confessing to the „treacherous crime of spying against this righteous country“.
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Years of terror: A man as feared as Bin Laden
Abu Nidal, was once as feared as Osama bin Laden. His most notorious attacks included:
*1978 His „Black June“ movement blamed for murdering PLO members in London, Paris, Madrid, Brussels, Kuwait and Rome.
*1982 Israeli ambassador to Britain, Shlomo Argov, shot in Mayfair, leaving him permanently paralysed.
*1984 Jordanian airliner attacked by rocket on take-off from Athens. Assassinations included the British cultural attaché in Athens and the British deputy high commissioner in Mumbai.
*1985 Egyptian airliner hijacked – six passengers murdered and 60 killed when the plane is stormed by Egyptian commandos
*1985 Gunmen massacre 18 and wound 120 in attacks on El Al ticket desks at Vienna and Romeairports, bottom left.
*1986 Machine-gun attack kills 22 in a synagogue inIstanbul; at least 20 passengers and crew are killed when Pan Am jet hijacked in Karachi, bottom right.
*1988 Nine killed and 98 wounded when gunmenattack the Greek cruise ship the City of Poros.
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