The body of terrorist Abu Nidal reportedly was discovered in an apartment in Baghdad. According to the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, a body believed to be Abu Nidal’s was found with gunshot wounds that indicated he had committed suicide, Israel Radio reported Monday. Abu Nidal masterminded gun and grenade attacks on Israeli airline check-in desks in Rome and Vienna in December 1985 in which 19 people died and more than 100 were wounded.
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