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AUGUST 14, 2002 : (ABU NIDAL ARRESTED) And so he set up an office with a guard and an apartment--which is where Iraqi intelligence supposedly arrested him this summer on August 14. But here there are two extremely divergent sides to the story. First the account as provided to reporters by Tahhir Jalil Haboush, chief of Iraqi intelligence:
Officials appeared at the doorstep of Nidal's apartment with orders to bring him to court. As "Jane's World Insurgency and Terrorism" relays, "when the security officers arrive at his home, Abu Nidal said he needed to go to his bedroom to change his clothes. Haboush said a shot was fired, and the officers found that Abu Nidal had shot himself in the mouth. He was then rushed to the hospital where he died eight hours later."
But Palestinian sources in Ramallah told "Jane's" quite a different story, saying that Abu Nidal "had set up plans to target a senior Iraqi official and that his group received $4 million from an Arab country for the operation. It was this . . . that prompted Iraqi intelligence to order the assassination of Abu Nidal and the arrest of his assistants." Palestinian sources also reported that Nidal's body "bore several gunshot wounds," thus casting doubts on the idea of a suicide.
If the Palestinian sources are to be believed, two questions linger: Which Arab state was helping Nidal? Who was the targeted official? - "An "Apparent" Suicide : Terrorist Abu Nidal dies in Iraq after he shoots himself in the head. Four times." by Victorino Matus , The Weekly Standard, 09/10/2002 12:00:00 AM

Well wouldn't you know it?

Tahir was the one who killed Abu Nidal...

He is also the guy who betrayed Hussein and told us he was going to meet him at that restaurant in Baghdad... The one in which the bombs dropped a few minutes after Hussein had figured out he had been set up...

This Tahir guy was working all kinds of angles... He is the missing link in this whole sordid mess.

We need to find him... ASAP