(Wall Street Journal) Kenneth R. Timmerman - Led by a much sought-after hit man for a handful of Arab governments, Abu Nidal's terrorist organization murdered 300 persons and wounded at least 600 more, according to the State Department. Nidal masterminded attacks on Jewish schoolchildren in Antwerp in 1980, a synagogue in Vienna in 1981, a Jewish restaurant in Paris in 1982, and the El Al ticket counter at the Vienna airport and the Rome airport in 1985. In 1986, Nidal struck a synagogue in Istanbul and hijacked a Pan Am flight in Karachi. On June 2, 1982, an Abu Nidal hit team shot Israeli Ambassador Shlomo Argov in London, an event that triggered Israel's entry into Lebanon. He also targeted Palestinian "moderates" - murdering Ezzedine Kalak in Paris, Said Hamami in London in 1978, and Issam Sartawi in Portugal in 1983.
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