Editing Abu Nidal (section)

===Banking with BCCI===
In the late 1980s, British intelligence learned that the ANO held accounts with the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] (BCCI) in London.<ref name=Walsh2004>{{cite web |author=Walsh, Conal |date=18 January 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040818181959/http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/story/0,11268,1125478,00.html |archive-date=2004-08-18 |url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/story/0%2C11268%2C1125478%2C00.html |title=What spooks told Old Lady about BCCI |work=[[The Observer]]}}</ref> In July 1991, BCCI was closed by banking regulators in six countries after evidence emerged of widespread fraud.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Fritz, Sarah |author2=Bates, James |date=11 July 1991 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-11-mn-2869-story.html |title=BCCI Case May Be History's Biggest Bank Fraud Scandal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021143223/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-11/news/mn-2869_1_independence-bank |archive-date=21 October 2014 |work=Los Angeles Times |url-status=live |access-date=7 July 2024}}</ref> Abu Nidal himself was said to have visited London using the name Shakar Farhan; a BCCI branch manager, who passed information about the ANO accounts to [[MI5]], reportedly drove him around several stores in London without realizing who he was.<ref>{{harvnb|Adams|Frantz|1992|p=90}}</ref> Abu Nidal was using a company called SAS International Trading and Investments in Warsaw as cover for arms deals.<ref>{{harvnb|Adams|Frantz|1992|p=136}}</ref> The company's transactions included the purchase of riot guns, ostensibly for Syria, then when the British refused an export license to Syria, for an African state; in fact, half the shipment went to the police in [[East Germany]] and half to Abu Nidal.<ref>{{harvnb|Adams|Frantz|1992|p=91}}</ref>