Editing Abu Nidal (section)

=== Shlomo Argov ===
Shlomo Argov was shot in the head as he left the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London.

On 3 June 1982, ANO operative Hussein Ghassan Said shot Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to Britain, once in the head as he left the Dorchester Hotel in London. Said was accompanied by Nawaf al-Rosan, an Iraqi intelligence officer, and Marwan al-Banna, Abu Nidal's cousin. Argov survived, but spent three months in a coma and the rest of his life disabled, until his death in February 2003.<sup>[63]</sup> The PLO quickly denied responsibility for the attack.<sup>[64]</sup>

[[Ariel Sharon]], then Israel's defence minister, responded three days later by invading Lebanon, where the PLO was based, a reaction that Seale argues Abu Nidal had intended. The Israeli government had been preparing to invade and Abu Nidal provided a pretext.<sup>[65]</sup> ''Der Spiegel'' put it to him in October 1985 that the assassination of Argov, when he knew Israel wanted to attack the PLO in Lebanon, made him appear to be working for the Israelis, in the view of Yasser Arafat.<sup>[66]</sup> He replied: