He has threatened to kill Mr Arafat and was responsible for killing two of Mr

He has threatened to kill Mr Arafat, and was responsible for killing two of Mr Arafat’s senior aides in 1990. He is reportedly based in Libya, though it is unclear whether he has freedom of movement there. According to some reports, he has been ill with cancer.Almost equally well known in her day was Leila Khaled, who twice hijacked planes on behalf of the Palestinian cause. She now lives in Jordan, a 53-year-old mother with teenage sons.

But in 1973 he quarrelled with the PLO, saying it was too moderate. He has become synonymous with the concept of a shadowy terrorist mastermind. All photographs are long out of date, and few facts about him are entirely undisputed. He has been implicated in dozens of terrorist attacks in the past 20 years, including attacks on Rome and Vienna airports in which 17 people died and an attack on a Greek ferry in which 11 people died.
He was born in Jaffa in 1937, and was ambassador for Yasser Arafat’s PLO in Sudan and Iraq.

Of all terrorists dead or alive, Abu Nidal is the most feared. Some are now dead, others are still on the run, others live quietly respectable lives. All that he’s got left is this rather desperate, kind of judicial, guerrilla warfare It’s his last manipulation.”. According to one version of his life, Ilich was trained as an international terrorist as a teenager in Cuba in the late 1960s; according to another version, he was a political dilettante – part radical, part playboy – until he discovered the Palestinian cause in 1970.What truly drove Carlos remains a mystery.