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Abu Nidal

1937 - 2002

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Sabri Khalil al-Banna (Arabic: صبري خليل البنا; May 1937 – 16 August 2002), known by his nom de guerre Abu Nidal ("father of struggle"), was a Palestinian militant. He was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council (Arabic: فتح المجلس الثوري), a militant Palestinian splinter group more commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO). Abu Nidal formed the ANO in October 1974 after splitting from Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu Nidal has received more than 821,375 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Abu Nidal is the 31st most popular extremist (up from 49th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Israel (up from 103rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Israeli Extremist.

Abu Nidal was a Palestinian terrorist who was most famous for his 1983 assassination of Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish American passenger on the Achille Lauro cruise ship.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Abu Nidal ranks 31 out of 283. Before him are Carlos the Jackal, Patrizia Reggiani, George Habash, Frederick Trump, Amon Göth, and Luis Carrero Blanco. After him are Otto Ohlendorf, Cleon, Nathuram Godse, Andreas Baader, H. H. Holmes, and Jim Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Abu Nidal ranks 30. Before him are Egon Krenz, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Gordon Banks, and Bruce McLaren. After him are Colin Powell, Alain Badiou, Karel Schwarzenberg, Bill Cosby, Jared Diamond, and Warren Beatty. Among people deceased in 2002, Abu Nidal ranks 24. Before him are James Coburn, Niki de Saint Phalle, Ivan Illich, Linda Lovelace, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Fritz Walter. After him are Alexander Prokhorov, Camilo José Cela, Nándor Hidegkuti, Archer Martin, Robert Nozick, and Jonas Savimbi.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Abu Nidal ranks 90 out of 466. Before him are Annas (-22), Unas (-2400), Ahaziah of Israel (-870), Canaan (null), Manasseh (-709), and Nicodemus (-50). After him are Pope Theodore I (600), Cyril of Jerusalem (313), Isaac Luria (1534), Pontius Pilate's wife (6), Ahaziah of Judah (-900), and Dan Shechtman (1941).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Israel

Among extremists born in Israel, Abu Nidal ranks 2. Before him are George Habash (1926). After him are Wadie Haddad (1927), Sirhan Sirhan (1944), and Yigal Amir (1970).

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