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PARIS - The Abu Nidal terrorist organization has been ripped by an internal power struggle in which more than 150 members of the group, including more than 20 of its leaders, have been killed, according to dissident senior leaders of the group, officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Arab diplomats.
The Abu Nidal group, called the Fatah Revolutionary Council, is based in Libya, where much of the killing took place.
The group is responsible for several of the most heinous acts of terrorism, including the killing of 21 people in the bombing of a synagogue in Istanbul in 1986.
The group is vehemently opposed to the PLO leadership of Yasser Arafat and broke from the organization in 1973.
Several separate reports by senior dissidents who left the...