Editing Abu Nidal Organization (section)

==Attacks==
{{Main|List of attacks attributed to Abu Nidal}}
The ANO carried out attacks in 20 countries worldwide, killing or injuring about 1,650 people.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Plügge |first=Matthias |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rEW8EAAAQBAJ |title=Traces of Terrorism: A Chronicle: Contexts, Attacks, Terrorists |date=2023-04-28 |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=978-3-7568-5364-9 |pages=55 |language=en |access-date=2023-12-01 |archive-date=2023-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231212195948/https://books.google.com/books?id=rEW8EAAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> Targets include the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Israel, moderate [[Palestinian diaspora|Palestinians]], the [[PLO]], and various [[Arab world|Arab]] and European countries. The group has not attacked Western targets since the late 1980s.

Major attacks included the [[Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks]] in December 1985, the [[Neve Shalom synagogue]] in [[Istanbul]] and the [[Pan Am Flight 73]] hijacking in [[Karachi]] in September 1986, and the ''[[City of Poros (ship)|City of Poros]]'' day-excursion ship attack in Greece in July 1988.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Suro |first1=Roberto |last2=Times |first2=Special To the New York |date=1988-02-13 |title=Palestinian Gets 30 Years for Rome Airport Attack |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/13/world/palestinian-gets-30-years-for-rome-airport-attack.html |access-date=2023-12-01 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2023-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101131800/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/13/world/palestinian-gets-30-years-for-rome-airport-attack.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The ANO has been especially noted for its uncompromising stance on negotiation with Israel, treating anything less than all-out military struggle against Israel as treachery. This led the group to perform numerous attacks against the PLO, which had made clear it accepted a negotiated solution to the conflict. Fatah-RC is believed to have assassinated PLO deputy chief [[Abu Iyad]] and PLO security chief Abul Hul in [[Tunis]] in January 1991.<ref name="FM">{{Cite book |last1=Quandt |first1=William B. |title=Scripting Middle East Leaders: The Impact of Leadership Perceptions on U.S. and UK Foreign Policy |last2=Freedman |first2=Sir Lawrence |last3=Michaels |first3=Jeffrey |date=2012-12-20 |publisher=[[A & C Black]] |isbn=978-1-4411-8572-3 |pages=101–116 |language=en |chapter=7. 'Skewed perceptions: Yasir Arafat in the eyes of American officials,1969-2004,' |author-link1=William B. Quandt |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5x5z3CRTPFgC&pg=RA1-PT78}}</ref> It assassinated a [[Jordan]]ian diplomat in [[Lebanon]] in January 1994 and has been linked to the killing of the PLO representative there. Noted PLO moderate [[Issam Sartawi]] was killed by the Fatah-RC in 1983. In October 1974, the group also made a failed assassination attempt on the present Palestinian [[President of the Palestinian National Authority|president]] and PLO chairman, [[Mahmoud Abbas]]. These attacks, and numerous others, led to the PLO issuing a death sentence ''in absentia'' against Abu Nidal. In the early 1990s, it made an attempt to gain control of a refugee camp in [[Lebanon]], but this was thwarted by PLO organizations.<ref name="Abu Nidal - Telegraph">{{cite news |last=Archer |first=Graeme |title=Abu Nidal |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/20/db2001.xml |url-status=dead |access-date=May 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020921212428/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/20/db2001.xml |archive-date=September 21, 2002}}</ref>