Abu Nidal who died in Baghdad last month under mysterious circumstances, was given a quiet burial in the Iraqi capital, his organization said Tuesday.
Iraqi intelligence handed over Abu Nidal's body Thursday to one of his relatives in Baghdad, the Fatah -Revolutionary Council group said in a statement.
Abu Nidal, 65, was buried the same day "in the presence of a handful of his family members, and the participation of an Iraqi intelligence officer to make sure he was buried," the group said, according to AP.
The statement said Abu Nidal had wanted to be buried in the West Bank town of Nablus "but several Arab and Zionist intelligence agencies prevented that."
Also Tuesday, the Fatah-Revolutionary Council denied claims by one of its former officials that Abu Nidal was behind the 1988 bombing that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. The explosion killed 270 people.
A Fatah-Revolutionary Command statement published Tuesday in Al Hayat said "the side that was tried and those people sentenced are, for sure, not members of our group."
(Albawaba.com)
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