On 15 May 1988, Abu Nidal Organization terrorists carried out machine gun and grenade attacks against two sites frequented by Westerners in Khartoum, Sudan.
[2] According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the attacks on the soft targets, which were well known for hosting many Westerners, were "in apparent revenge for the Israeli assassination in Tunisia of the PLO military leader Khalil al-Wazir.
"[4] In October 1988, five terrorists belonging to a front group of the Abu Nidal Organization were sentenced to death for the attacks.
[1] Their death sentences were commuted to prison time when the relatives of the Sudanese victims agreed to the payment of "blood money."
In January 1991, shortly before the Gulf War started, the new regime of the Islamist leader Hassan Al Turabi released the five from prison.