ABU NIDAL vs BIN LADIN
I tend to stay away from political matters - even though I have always kept a vivid interest in all the going ons on this planet.
I fled from the 'Israel' thread opened on this forum as I just don't think it was aptly named...
But I woke up this morning with, for some reason, a question ringing in my head. "Who was the foremost "arab terrorist" before the emergence of Bin Ladin?" (make no mistake, "Bin Ladin" is the preferred western spelling according to his brother Yeslam). While I had breakfast, a name came naturally to my mind: Abu Nidal. I remembered he was the most feared terrorist in my innocent youth, at a time when I believed just about everything I read in the newspapers...
So with a few hours of googling, I dug up these tidbits of information - or perhaps I should always put "information" in quotes. However, here goes :
-Abu Nidal's first operation: September 5, 1973, using the name Al-Iqab (The Punishment), seized the Saudi embassy in Paris, taking 11 hostages and threatened to blow up the building.
-Abu Nidal, together with Abu Daoud ( later involved in the 1972 Black September kidnapping and killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Village in Munich) called for Arafat to be overthrown as an enemy of the Palestinian people.
- Abu Nidal's father, according to his brother, was "the richest man in Palestine and a close friend of Avraham Shapira, one of the founders of Hashomer, the Jewish self-defense organization and of Dr. Weizmann [later the first president of Israel]".
- Abu Nidal was an extremely secretive, recluse personnage, so much so that his very existence was oft questioned.
Then I learned that "ABU NIDAL" means "father of Nidal".
So I thought: What does "BIN LADIN" mean? It means "son of Ladin".
Wow. I almost spilled my precious morning coffee. This was getting interesting!
NIDAL _________________________________________LADIN


"Top arab terrorist 1970-1990"_________________________________________"Top arab terrorist 1990-2010"
Now, it so happens that several researchers have provided serious indications that Abu Nidal was a Mossad agent.
Patrick Seale (a British journalist and author who specialises in the Middle East) even wrote a book about it:

False Flag Attacks by Abu Nidal Mossad Terrorist
http://www.real-debt-elimination.com/re ... rorist.htm
The book was, of course, slashed by neo-con Daniel Pipes, who was nominated by George W. Bush to the board of directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace and was Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign advisor. This is how Pipes concludes:
"Abu Nidal" is not an investigative report to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
http://www.danielpipes.org/881/abu-nidal-a-gun-for-hire
I spent the day singing a catchy song which goes:
"NIDALADINIDALADINIDALADINIDALADINIDALADINIDALADINIDALADINIDALADINIDALADINIDALADINIDALADI..."
