A report by the Herald Sun newspaper claimed that exiled...

A report by the Herald Sun newspaper claimed that exiled Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal did not commit suicide as believed, but was executed by Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's secret police for refusing to train al-Qaeda fighters, Iraqi dissidents said.
Their claims were supported by journalist and author Con Coughlin, a Middle East expert, who wrote that Abu Nidal had been executed for refusing to reactivate his terrorist networks. Abu Nidal, born Sabri al-Banna, was the most feared terrorist leader in the world for two decades. He was 65 when he died in a government-supplied flat in the Iraqi capital Baghdad from gunshot wounds.