out of the abu nidal palestinian group. the perpetrators were quickly apprehended and hanged in public. faced with the syrian onslaught i felt appealed to the arab world for assistance accusing syria of attempting to liquidate the palestinian resistance the syrian assault force the palestinians onto the defensive. they were no longer able to mount an effective resupply of their besieged refugee camps and the christians. the camps principle among which was telling were overrun and the residents expelled or massacred. 2 arab summits were quickly convened they established what became known as the out of deterrent forces made up principally of the same syrian forces that had entered lebanon with only token representation from several other arab states syria had prevailed the value at which had. president assad's view was that syria in its ability to achieve strategic parity with israel had to be supported by 2 strong wings a lebanese wing and a palestinian wing that is if syria was to have influence on the political scene it ha

provided backing to abu nidal splinter. in january of 178 gunmen loyal to abu nidal assassinated sight hamami at the p.l.o. office and. it was to be the 1st of many killings of federal palestinians that carry out. despite its talk of a 2 state solution the mainstream for the 100 artifacts did not relinquish its arms struggle in march 1708 a fact that unit led by a female commando element to be commandeered an israeli bus near the city of haifa . in the ensuing firefight $36.00 israelis were killed or israel responded by invading southern lebanon and setting up what it termed as a security zone to drive p.l.o. forces out of rocketing which. almost a year later israel struck a massive blow against the p.l.o. by assassinating a highside salam salam he was in charge of artifacts personal security. over the years he had been developing contacts with the cia and was seen as a point man for interaction with the air because. we had through the cia some kind of a liaison or larsen ship without a house and salama. and that had to do

arafat's arch rival abu nidal quickly allied himself with the anti out of fact faction. in april of 1983 at a meeting in portugal the abu nidal organization assassinated by some subtle we 3 leading p.l.o. moderate and artifact representatives who had been negotiating with israeli. this. is really leadership on peres also in attendance was left alone are. enough to. a. week or so i thought was assessing later on also him in tunis and i asked him why he hadn't also shot that is he said he's orders were to kill some thought we only saw one day i hope to write an article about abu nidal and some thought i would call it who is a traitor the murderer or the victim the victim was innocent and honorable a man who knew where his people's interest lay but the murderer was a tool and a traitor abu nidal discredited the palestinian cause in the eyes of the world when in 19052 of his european cells attacked rome and vienna airports killing 18 and wounding a 140 people. a cia document at the time claimed that abu nidal had not attacked a single israeli target back here. back in june 1

the perpetrator was i had a fat old nemesis abu nidal who was once again iraq's gun for hire. ironically we had had in the past turned down the opportunity to have i wouldn't doubt kill. can only way one can. makem very. long without the idea to tell me that he couldn't order him to not wanted because he had broken bread with him at his home and he said he couldn't kill him for the sake of his children so what happened i wanted our assassinated him i swear more than once i told out of 5 and i will yet that i'd have one adult killed in baghdad and if his iraqi friends got upset then i'd fix things with them but out of fact and i would turn down my offer nasmyth that we had with us with you have it in and got in with syrian people like yet and i was he had had an influence on arafat's this is and the policies he adopted or with. by taking them out of fatah was left with no effective people around him many with ultimately and this had a negative effect in the years to come. by the end of february saddam hussein's army had been ejected from kuwait his regime almost shattered. but