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Article: Abu Nidal's roots hard to dig up
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 16, 1986
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Trying to trace the world's most-wanted terrorist, Abu Nidal, alias
Sabri el-Banna, back to his Palestinian roots is as difficult as
pinpointing his whereabouts today.
The effort was not without a mite of compensation in fantasy,
though. It made me feel as if I were a detective - following obscure
leads, interviewing bizarre individuals, visiting off-beat places.
The search began in Jaffa, until 1948 one of the Arab world's
liveliest cities, since then a rundown section of Greater Tel Aviv.
Nowadays, Jaffa is populated mainly by Jews. Only a few thousand
Arabs, most of whom moved in from villages that don't exist anymore,
are left.
"That's where he used to live," said a white-haired ...