Editing Abu Nidal (section)

===Impex, Black September===
[[File:Hussein of Jordan 1997.jpg|thumb|upright|left|alt=photograph|[[Hussein of Jordan|King Hussein]] of Jordan in 1997]]

In Saudi Arabia, Abu Nidal helped found a small group of young Palestinians who called themselves the Palestine Secret Organization. The activism cost him his job and home: Aramco fired him, and the Saudi government imprisoned, then expelled him in 1967.<ref name=Hudson1999p100>{{harvnb|Hudson|1999|p=100}}</ref> He returned to Nablus with his wife and family, and joined Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the PLO. Working as an odd-job man, he was committed to Palestinian politics but was not particularly active until Israel won the 1967 [[Six-Day War]], capturing the [[Golan Heights]], the [[West Bank]], and the [[Gaza Strip]]. Melman writes that "the entrance of the Israel Defense Forces tanks into Nablus was a traumatic experience for him. The conquest aroused him to action."<ref>{{harvnb|Melman|1987|p=52}}</ref>

After moving to [[Amman]], Jordan, he set up a trading company called Impex, which acted as a front for Fatah and served as a meeting place and conduit for funds. This became a hallmark of Abu Nidal's career. ANO-controlled companies controlled made him a rich man by through legitimate business, and functioned as cover for arms deals and mercenary activities.<ref name=Seale1992p69>{{harvnb|Seale|1992|p=69}}</ref>

[[File:King Hussein 1970.ogv|thumb|alt=video|1970 Echo newsreel about the situation in Jordan]]
When Fatah asked him to choose a ''[[Pseudonym|nom de guerre]]'', he chose Abu Nidal ("father of struggle") after his son, Nidal.<ref name=AbuKhalil2005/> Those who knew him at the time said he was a well-organized leader, not a guerrilla; during fighting between the [[Palestinian fedayeen]]s and King Hussein's troops, he stayed in his office.<ref>{{harvnb|Melman|1987|p=513}}; {{harvnb|Seale|1992|p=70}}</ref> In 1968, Abu Iyad appointed him as the Fatah representative in [[Khartoum]], Sudan. Later, at Abu Nidal's insistence, he was appointed to the same position in Baghdad in July 1970. He arrived two months before "[[Black September]]", when more than 10 days of fighting King Hussein's army drove the Palestinian [[fedayeen]]s out of Jordan, with the loss of thousands of lives. Abu Nidal's absence from Jordan at a time, Seale writes, when it was clear that King Hussein was about to act against the Palestinians, raised suspicion within the movement that Abu Nidal was interested only in saving himself.<ref name=Seale1992p78>{{harvnb|Seale|1992|p=78}}</ref>