- Other sources disagree about the cause of death. Palestinian sources told
journalists that Abu Nidal had in fact died of multiple gunshot wounds. Marie Colvin and
Sonya Murad, writing in The Sunday Times, say that he was assassinated by a hit
squad of 30 men from Office 8, the Iraqi Mukhabarat assassination unit.
- When they arrived to raid his house on August 14 (not August 16,
according to Jane's), fighting broke out between Abu Nidal's men and Iraqi intelligence.
In the midst of this, Abu Nidal rushed into his bedroom and was killed, though Jane's
writes it remains unclear whether he killed himself or was killed by someone else. Jane's
sources insist that his body bore several gunshot wounds.
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- Jane's suggests that Saddam Hussein may have ordered him arrested and
killed because he regarded Abu Nidal as a mercenary who would have acted against him in
the event of an American invasion, if the money had been right.
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