Terrorism

Esteban Lopez

Abu Nidal Organization

Homeland Security

Abu Nidal Organization

Terrorism has been a threat to the world for decades affecting countries all over the world. The United States is not the only country that has suffered through that fear of threat. It was only since 9/11 that the United States started taking the threat a lot more serious. The United States created the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, "was created to examine past policies and make the recommendation for establishing security (Gaines & Kappeler, 2012, p.12)." One of the threats that threaten the safety of the United States the Abu Nidal Organization.

History

Abu Nidal Organization is also known as the Fatah Revolutionary, is a terrorist organization widely known for deadly attacks in the 1980s on Western, Palestinian, and Israeli targets. The Abu Nidal Organization—named after its leader Sabri al-Banna, a veteran Palestinian terrorist, known by the nom de guerre Abu Nidal—is a secular international terrorist group that has been sponsored by Syria, Libya, and Iraq. Also has attacked a wide range of Western, Israeli, and Arab targets (Council on Foreign Relations).

Over the years, the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) mounted terrorist operations in twenty countries, killing about three hundred people and wounding hundreds more. In the mid-1980s, the group was seen as the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, but some experts say the group is inactive and no longer poses much of a threat. The group started with the man named Abu Nidal.

Abu Nidal, which means "father of the struggle" in Arabic, is the alias of Sabri al-Banna, who was born in 1937 into a landowning family in British-ruled Palestine. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Banna's family fled, ending up in the West Bank. In the 1950s, he joined the Arab nationalist Baath Party, and in 1967 he got involved with the PLO. Abu Nidal represented al-Fatah—the dominant faction of the...