“The death in August [16, 2002] of the notorious terrorist Abu Nidal in Baghdad provided a useful reminder that Iraq has become a state of last resort for the pariahs of the international terror community. As White House spokesman Ari Fleischer pointed out when news broke of the death [on August 20, 2002], ‘The fact that only Iraq would give safe haven to Abu Nidal demonstrates the Iraqi regime’s complicity with global terror.’ ”
– Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 25