Editing Abu Nidal (section)

===Committee for Special Missions===
The Committee for Special Missions' job was to choose targets.<ref name=Seale1992p183>{{harvnb|Seale|1992|p=183}}</ref> It had started out as the Military Committee, headed by Naji Abu al-Fawaris, who had led the attack on [[Heinz Nittel]], head of the Israel-Austria Friendship League, who was shot and killed in 1981.<ref>Seale 1992, 186.</ref> In 1982, the committee changed its name to the Committee for Special Missions, headed by Dr. Ghassan al-Ali, who had been born in the [[West Bank]] and educated in England, where he obtained a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in chemistry, and married (and later divorced) a British woman.<ref>{{harvnb|Seale|1992|p=182}}</ref> A former ANO member said that Ali favoured "the most extreme and reckless operations".<ref name=Seale1992p183/>