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Abu Nidal's Group Denies Leader's Suicide

The Lebanon-based Fatah-Revolutionary Council (FRC) has admitted for the first time the death of its leader Abu Nidal, but denied his suicide, the newspaper As Safir reported Thursday.


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The Lebanon-based Fatah-Revolutionary Council (FRC) has admitted for the first time the death of its leader Abu Nidal, but denied his suicide, the newspaper As Safir reported Thursday.

Abu Nidal, 65, has been wanted by several countries, especially the United States and Israel. He broke off from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah movement in 1974 and founded the FRC , which has been accused of being responsible for some 90 terrorist attacks and the deaths of hundreds of people.

A FRC statement was quoted as saying that Abu Nidal's death was not a suicide as Iraq's intelligence chief Taher Jalil Habboush declared in a news conference in Baghdad on Wednesday.

Habboush told reporters that Abu Nidal committed suicide when Iraqi intelligence unit was dispatched to his house to bring him toan interrogation about his illegal entry into Iraq.

"It was a carefully planned premeditated assassination executed by an apparatus of the Iraqi intelligence service," the FRC statement argued, appealing to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to personally intervene fast for an official probe into the assassination.

The FRC would soon announce the name of its new leader to succeed Abu Nidal "in the same footsteps of his uncompromising struggle for the Palestinian cause," the statement said.


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