Editing Abu Nidal (section)

=== Committee for Special Missions ===
The job of the Committee for Special Missions was to choose targets.<sup>[60]</sup> It had started life as the Military Committee, headed by Naji Abu al-Fawaris, who had led the attack on Heinz Nittel, head of the Israel-Austria Friendship League, who was shot and killed in 1981.<sup>[61]</sup> In 1982 the committee changed its name to the Committee for Special Missions, headed by Dr. Ghassan al-Ali, who had been born in the West Bank and educated in England, where he obtained a BA and MA in chemistry and married a British woman (later divorced).<sup>[62]</sup> A former ANO member told Seale that Ali favoured "the most extreme and reckless operations."<sup>[60]</sup>