Strategy, Targets, and Methods of Operations

Abu Nidal Terrorist Organization

Strategy

• destroy as many Jews as possible • overthrow the government in Israel • Claim Israel as their own State.• Negotiations with Israel? NO!• used violence in large attacks on civilians and

assassinations on political figures• operated globally • 20 different countries!

Targets • Main targets were moderate Palestinians in Arab

Countries as well as Israelis and Jews abroad• hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 -killed 22• killed more than 20 PLO representatives – Including Abu Iyad (second com. of the PLO in 1991)– Naeb Imran Maaytah (senior Jordanian Diplomat in

1994) • Targets shifted to accommodate state

sponsors!• Random targets

Method of Operations

• Kidnappings• hijackings of planes to

use as missiles • Assassinations• bombs/ grenades• submachine guns

Where Are They Now?

• Abu Nidal strategy failed• mistakes made politically and militarily• members of the group say that Abu Nidal

committed suicide because he was suffering from cancer.– Found dead in Baghdad with 4 gunshot wounds??• Attacks have ceased: loss of supporters, no purpose• fight for an Independent Palestinian state is still

ongoing.