President-for-Life Yasser Arafat’s Fatah representative in Lebanon said that he had recently escaped an assassination attempt ordered by hard-liner Abu Nidal. Sultan Abul-Aynayn told a news conference that his group was holding a Palestinian, Ibrahim Abdel-Aal, 25. Abul Aynayn said Abdel-Aal was operating on the orders of Abu-Nidal, leader of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, and was planning to assassinate him with a car bomb in the Rashidieh camp in south Lebanon.
Abu Nidal gets its funding from Iraq and Libya and is headquartered in Iraq. We tend to forget they're still around. Bet Abul Aynayn wishes he could. |