Terrorism: Black September in August?

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Who was behind the attack? Perhaps the Israelis, as Abu Daoud himself suggested. They certainly had motive enough. But Israeli intelligence officials insist that they would not undertake such a mission in a Communist-bloc country where infiltration and escape would be so difficult for the hit man. The attack could also have been the work of Abu Daoud's enemies within the Palestinian guerrilla movement, where motives are always obscure. Or, confounding all the experts, it could even have been, as Warsaw rumor had it, merely an affair of the heart.