The Independent revealed a long-expected surprise: Abu Nidal, a terrorist par excellence, worked for the CIA. A friend of Saddam Hussein, he spied on Saddam for the CIA, trying to obtain non-existent evidence of Saddam’s cooperation with Al Qaeda. Saddam duly executed him in 2002, but made the death appear a suicide, apparently to avoid confrontation with other terrorists.
Abu Nidal provided Israel with the pretext for invading Lebanon in 1982 by attempting the assassination of the ambassador Shlomo Argov.
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Actually the news about Abu Nidal trained by CIA was not a surprise for the majority of the countries involved. Saddam got rid of him but then the USA got rid of Saddam. Evidently, Abu Nidal trained by CIA regretted it immensely although he must have known what risk he was running performing this kind of job. But this training turned out to be the one you pay your life for.