(Ha'aretz)Yossi Melman - Saddam Hussein has been involved in Palestinian politics since he took power more than 30 years ago. His intelligence organizations gave asylum to three Palestinian terror organizations in the 1970s. But the most important link between Saddam and terror may be seen in his connection with the Fatah Revolutionary Council, the organization led by Sabri Al-Banna, better known as Abu Nidal. Since the second half of the 1970s, Iraq has ceased to use him to attain direct goals. Although he was permitted to return to Baghdad in 1988, Abu Nidal, old and ill, was irrelevant and later viewed as an encumbrance. Last summer, he was found shot dead in the Iraqi capital; the government claimed he had committed suicide. But the four bullets in his head testified otherwise. Saddam apparently ordered his long-time ally killed.
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