A new book out by Yossef Bodansky attempts to shed new light on the events surrounding the Iraq campaign. Abu Nidal did not commit suicide and I’ve stated this before. It turns out that Nidal was between a rock and a hard place in Iraq and perhaps looking for an out via the SIS (Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service) by offering to provide details of Saddam’s Al Qaeda ties and his own international terrorism efforts. Here’s an excerpt from Bodansky’s book thanks to a WorldNetDaily article:
There is a unique, and exceptionally well-defended upper-class compound in the al-Jazair neighborhood of Baghdad. It is a retirement community, but its residents are no ordinary senior citizens. They include retirees from Iraqi intelligence, former senior security officials, and a host of terrorists, most of them Arabs, who have cooperated with Baghdad over the years.
Since 2000, Sabri al-Banna – better known as Abu Nidal – had been one of the preeminent members of this community. Then, on the night of August 16, 2002, a few gunmen made their way through the well-protected gates and into a three-story house where they swiftly killed Abu Nidal and four of his aides. They then walked out without uttering a word. None of the guards or security personnel attempted to interfere with the assassination, because the assassins, like the guards themselves, worked for the Mukhabarat – Iraq’s internal security and intelligence service.
Abu Nidal had been one of the world’s most brutal terrorist leaders since rising to prominence in the 1960s. His people were involved not only in countless assassinations and bombings, but also in comprehensive support operations for diverse terrorist groups all over the world – from Latin America to Northern Ireland to Japan. He was the mastermind of some of the most lethal terrorist strikes in history, and his organization was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians around the world.
Read the rest of the excerpt here.
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