Another PLO figure killed in fratricide, "April 10, 1983: Assassination of PLO official Issam Sartawi at the Socialist International conference in Lisbon, Portugal." http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/orgdet.cfm?orgid=2
Terrorist Activity
September 5, 1973: While still in the framework of Fatah, Abu Nidal occupied the Saudi embassy in Paris, asking the release of Abu Dawud, a Fatah terrorist imprisoned in Jordan during the September 1970 events.
September 26, 1976: Attack and take-over of the Semiramis Hotel in Damascus, Syria. Two of the participating terrorists were hanged in public.
October 11, 1976: Attacks on Syrian embassies in Islamabad, Pakistan and Rome, Italy .
November 17, 1976: Attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Amman, Jordan .
December 13, 1976: Failed assassination attempt against Khadam, the Syrian foreign minister in Damascus, Syria and failed attack on the Syrian embassy In Istanbul, Turkey.
October 25, 1977: Another failed attempt to assassinate Khadam, the Syrian foreign minister, this time in Abu Dhabi. The United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs is killed during this attack.
January 4, 1978: Assassination of Said Hammami, the PLO representative in London, UK.
February 18, 1978: The senior Egyptian journalist Youssef al-Seba'i, President of the Conference of the Organization for the Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America is killed during an attack on the conference hall.
June 15, 1978: Assassination of Ali Yassin, the PLO representative in Kuwait.
August 3, 1978: Assassination of Izz al-Din al-Kalak, the PLO representative in Paris, France, and of one of his assistants.
August 5, 1978: Attack on the PLO offices in Islamabad, Pakistan.
January, 17, 1980: Assassination of Yussouf Mubarak, director of the Palestinian library-shop in Paris, France.
July 27, 1980: Attack on the children of a Jewish school in Antwerpen, Belgium. Claimed responsibility for the murder of the Israeli commercial attache in Brussels.
May 1, 1981: Assassination of Heinz Nittel, President of the Austrian-Israeli Friendship Association in Vienna, Austria.
June 1, 1981: Assassination of Naim Khader, the PLO representative in Brussels, Belgium.
August 29, 1981: Machiattack on Vienna synagogue, kills two and wounds 17 persons.
June 3, 1982: Attempted assassination of Shlomo Argov, Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom. The attack will trigger the war Israel waged in Lebanon against the PLO presence.
August 9, 1982: Machine-gun attack on the Jewish restaurant Goldberg in Paris, France.
August 26, 1982: Attempted assassination of the United Arab Emirates's consul in Bombay, India, and attempted assassination of another Kuwaiti diplomat in Karachi, Pakistan.
September 16, 1982: Assassination of a Kuwaiti diplomat in Madrid, Spain.
September 19, 1982: Attack on a synagogue in Brussels, Belgium.
October 9, 1982: One child is killed and another ten people are injured in a grenade and machine-gun attack on the central synagogue in Rome, Italy.
April 10, 1983: Assassination of PLO official Issam Sartawi at the Socialist International conference in Lisbon, Portugal.
Attempted assassination of the Jordanian ambassador to Italy, in Rome.
October 25, 1983: Assassination of the Jordanian ambassador in New Delhi, India. The next day, the Jordanian ambassador in Rome, Italy, is also killed.
November 7, 1983: Assassination of a security guard during an attack on the Jordanian embassy in Athens, Greece.
December 1983: Believed responsible for bombing the French Cultural Center in Izmir, Turkey.
December 29, 1983: Assassination of the Jordanian ambassador in Madrid, Spain.
February 8, 1984: Assassination of the UAE ambassador in Paris, France.
March 1984: Assassination of a British diplomat in Athens, Greece.
March, 24, 1984: A bomb is discovered in the Intercontinental Hotel in Amman, during the visit of Queen Elisabeth II in Jordan.
June 5, 1984: Attempted assassination of an Israeli diplomat in Cairo, Egypt.
October, 27, 1984: Attempted assassination of an UAE's diplomat in Rome, Italy.
November 27, 1984: Assassination of the British High Commissioner in Bombay, India.
November 29, 1984: Bombing of the British Airways offices in Beirut, Lebanon.
Attempted assassination of a Jordanian diplomat in Athens, Greece.
December 4, 1984: Assassination of a Jordanian diplomat in Bucarest, Rumania (Black September).
December 26, 1984: Bombing of PLO leader Hani al-Hassan's home in Amman, Jordan (Black September).
December 29, 1984: Assassination of PLO activist Fahed Kawasmeh in Amman, Jordan (Black September).
March 21, 1985: Bombings of ALIA (the Royal Jordanian Airlines) offices in Rome, Athens and Nicosia (Black September).
April 3, 4, 1985: Rockets fired at an ALIA airliner as it took off from Athens airport (although the rocket did not detonate, it left a hole in the fuselage) and against the Jordanian embassy in Rome.
July 22, 1985: Failed bombing of the American embassy in Cairo.
July , 1985: Bombing of the British Airways office in Madrid (one person killed and twenty seven wounded); five minutes later attack on ALIA offices, two blocks away (two persons wounded). Grenade attack against the Cafe de Paris in Rome (thirty eight people wounded).
November 23, 1985: Hijacking of an Egyptian plane to Malta, where sixty- six people were killed during a rescue attempt by the Egyptian military forces.
December 27, 1985: Major attacks on Rome and Vienna airports, killing sixteen and wounding scores. Attempted hijack of a Pan-Am flight at Karachi airport (22 persons killed).
September 6, 1986: Attack on the Neve-Shalom synagogue in Istanbul, killing twenty-two worshippers.
November 1987: Hijacking of a yacht with its eight Belgian occupants, taken hostage to Libya.
March 1988: A lone gunman attacks an Alitalia airlines crew aboard a commuter bus in Bombay, seriously wounding the crew captain.
May 1988: Simultaneous attacks on the Acropole Hotel and the Sudan Club in Khartoum (eight persons killed and twenty-one wounded.).
July 1988: Following the premature detonation of a car bomb at an Athens pier, in which two terrorists were killed, gunmen aboard the excursion ship City of Poros attacked the passengers, killing nine and wounding ninety- eight.
January 14, 1991: PLO deputy chief Abu Iyad, the most senior official of Fatah after Yasser Arafat, and Abu el-Hol, commander of the Western Sector forces of Fatah, assassinated by an Abu Nidal terrorist in Tunis.
Michael Pugliese