Abu Nidal Organization (ANO), or Fatah - Revolutionary Council
Years: 1974 - 2002
The Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) is the most common name for the Palestinian nationalist militant group Fatah—the Revolutionary Council (Fatah al-Majles al-Thawry).
The ANO is named after its founder Abu Nidal
It was created by a split from Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the PLO in 1974.
The group has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Israel and the European Union.
The ANO is secular and anti-Western, but is not particularly associated with a broad ideology like leftism or Marxism.
