The Rue des Rosiers assault was blamed on a Palestinian splinter group based by infamous militant Abu Nidal, who was shot useless in Iraq in 2002. Nidal’s organisation broke away from the Palestine Liberation Group (PLO) and was blamed for a string of lethal assaults that claimed 900 lives, principally within the Nineteen Eighties, together with assassinations, aircraft hijackings and shootings at airports and on a Greek cruise ship.
