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26-414: FRC may refer to: Organizations [ edit ] Fatah - Revolutionary Council , a defunct terrorist organization Federacion de Radioaficionados de Cuba , a Cuban amateur radio organization First Responders Children's Foundation, an American non-profit organization; see Disney Princess Financial Reporting Council , an independent regulator in

52-403: A Roman Catholic prayer movement Family Rosary Crusade (TV program) , a Philippine television program Fraternitas Rosae Crucis , an American Rosicrucian organization Free Reformed Churches (disambiguation) Science and technology [ edit ] Fiber-reinforced composite Fiber-reinforced concrete Field-reversed configuration , a type of plasma device studied as

78-713: A Scottish band Transportation [ edit ] Franca Airport (IATA code), in Brazil Fast Response Car , of the Singapore Police Force Fast Response Cutter , of the United States Coast Guard Functional road class, in road functional classification Other uses [ edit ] FIRST Robotics Competition , an annual international robotics competition for students aged 14-18 Cajun French (ISO 639-3 language code) Fischer Random Chess ,

104-446: A car tire for whipping and salt application, melting plastic on their skin, frying their genitals, and confining them in tiny cells bound hand and foot. If cells were full, prisoners could be buried alive with a steel pipe for breathing. Execution was carried out by firing a bullet down the pipe. From 1987 to 1988, hundreds of members of Abu Nidal's organization were killed due to internal paranoia and terror tactics. The elderly wife of

130-728: A chess variant Folk Research Centre , in Saint Lucia Frater Rosae Crucis , a title in the Rosicrucian Order French Republican calendar Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title FRC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FRC&oldid=1204329667 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

156-548: A defunct British genealogical library Federal Radio Commission , a defunct regulatory agency of the US federal government Federal Republic of China , a proposed federal republic encompassing mainland China, Macau, and Hong Kong Federal Record Centers, one of the National Archives facilities Religion [ edit ] Family Research Council , an American conservative Christian organization Family Rosary Crusade ,

182-623: A freelance contractor, Abu Nidal is believed by the United States Department of State to have ordered attacks in 20 countries, killing or injuring over 900 people. The ANO group's most notorious attacks were on the El Al ticket counters at Rome and Vienna airports in December 1985, when Arab gunmen high on amphetamines opened fire on passengers in simultaneous shootings, killing 18 and wounding 120. Patrick Seale , Abu Nidal's biographer, wrote of

208-464: A means of producing nuclear fusion Flame-resistant clothing Frame rate control , in displays Fibroblastic reticular cells , a type of reticular cell Fourier ring correlation , in structural biology Functional residual capacity , the volume of air present in the lungs at the end of passive expiration Music [ edit ] "F.R.C." (song) , a 1991 single by Australian rock band The Screaming Jets Futuristic Retro Champions ,

234-737: A mercenary. Two months later, just after the October 1973 Yom Kippur War , during discussions about convening a peace conference in Geneva, the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) hijacked a KLM airliner, using the name of the Arab Nationalist Youth Organization. The operation was intended to send a signal to Fatah not to send representatives to any peace conference. In response, Arafat officially expelled Abu Nidal from Fatah in March 1974, and

260-497: A political solution with Israel should be an option. Consequently, Abu Nidal split from Fatah in 1974 and formed his "rejectionist" front to carry on a Pan-Arabist armed struggle. Abu Nidal's first independent operation took place on September 5, 1973, when five gunmen using the name Al-Iqab ("The Punishment") seized the Saudi embassy in Paris, taking 11 hostages and threatening to blow up

286-497: A veteran member was also killed on false charges. The killings were mostly carried out by four individuals: Mustafa Ibrahim Sanduqa, Isam Maraqa, Sulaiman Samrin, and Mustafa Awad. Decisions to kill were mostly made by Abu Nidal after he had consumed a whole bottle of whiskey at night. According to ANO dissidents, the attacks made by the group were unconnected to the Palestinian cause and led to their defection. In addition, they claimed

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312-486: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fatah - Revolutionary Council In practice, the ANO was leftist and secularist , as well as anti-Zionist and anti-Western . In theory, it was not particularly associated with any specific ideology—or at least no such foundation was declared. It was mostly linked with the pursuit of Abu Nidal's personal agendas. The ANO

338-692: The Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Abu Nidal established his faction within the PLO, just prior to Black September in Jordan, and following internal disagreements within the PLO. During Fatah's Third Congress in Damascus in 1971, he emerged as the leader of a leftist alliance against Yasser Arafat . After the 1973 Yom Kippur War , many members of the mainstream Fatah movement argued that

364-875: The Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks in December 1985, the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul and the Pan Am Flight 73 hijacking in Karachi in September 1986, and the City of Poros day-excursion ship attack in Greece in July 1988. The ANO has been especially noted for its uncompromising stance on negotiation with Israel, treating anything less than all-out military struggle against Israel as treachery. This led

390-606: The UK and Ireland Finnish Red Cross Finance [ edit ] First Republic Bank , an American bank First Round Capital , an American venture capital firm First Reserve Corporation , an American private equity firm Education [ edit ] Feather River College , in California, US Fort Richmond Collegiate , a high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Government [ edit ] Family Records Centre ,

416-581: The attacks that their "random cruelty marked them as typical Abu Nidal operations." The ANO carried out attacks in 20 countries worldwide, killing or injuring about 1,650 people. Targets include the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Israel, moderate Palestinians , the PLO , and various Arab and European countries. The group has not attacked Western targets since the late 1980s. Major attacks included

442-455: The building if Abu Dawud was not released from jail in Jordan, where he had been arrested in February 1973 for an attempt on King Hussein 's life. Following the incident, Mahmoud Abbas of the PLO took flight to Iraq to meet Abu Nidal. In the meeting Abbas became so angry, that he stormed out of the meeting, followed by the other PLO delegates, and from that point on, the PLO regarded Abu Nidal as

468-495: The execution of traitors within the movement. Each new recruit of the ANO was given several days to write down his life story and sign a paper agreeing to his execution if anything was found to be untrue. Every so often, the recruit would be asked to rewrite the whole story. Any discrepancies were taken as evidence that he was a spy and he would be made to write it out again, often after days of being beaten and nights spent forced to sleep standing up. British journalist Alec Collett

494-573: The group to perform numerous attacks against the PLO, which had made clear it accepted a negotiated solution to the conflict. Fatah-RC is believed to have assassinated PLO deputy chief Abu Iyad and PLO security chief Abul Hul in Tunis in January 1991. It assassinated a Jordanian diplomat in Lebanon in January 1994 and has been linked to the killing of the PLO representative there. Noted PLO moderate Issam Sartawi

520-629: The guerrilla was the "living example of paranoia". Functional classification The functional classification of a road is the class or group of roads to which the road belongs. There are three main functional classes as defined by the United States Federal Highway Administration : arterial, collector, and local. Arterial roads generally provide the fastest method of travel and typically have low accessibility from neighboring roads. They are usually designed with long-distance travel in mind and are not as common as

546-681: The other two functional classes of roads. Examples include interstates and highways. Collector roads are the second most common and are used as a connection between local roads and arterial roads. They provide a balance between access and mobility. Local roads are the most common roads by far, but are also the slowest for travel. They are designed specifically to have high accessibility and to connect to collector and arterial roads, and are typically not used for through traffic. The main function of local roads are to allow for people who live in low density residential to connect to other residential areas or to collector roads. This road-related article

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572-654: The rift between the two groups, and the two men, was complete. In June the same year, ANO formed the Rejectionist Front , a political coalition that opposed the Ten Point Program adopted by the Palestine Liberation Organization in its 12th Palestinian National Congress session. Abu Nidal then moved to Ba'athist Iraq where he set up the ANO, which soon began a string of terrorist attacks aimed at Israel and Western countries. Setting himself up as

598-445: Was assassinated on the orders of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein . The Abu Nidal Organization was established by Sabri Khalil al-Bannah (Abu Nidal) , known by his nom de guerre Abu Nidal, a Palestinian Arab nationalist and a former Ba'ath party member. Abu Nidal long argued that PLO membership should be open to all Arabs , not just Palestinians. He also argued that Palestine must be established as an Arab state, stretching from

624-485: Was established to carry on an armed struggle in pursuit of pan-Arabism and the destruction of Israel . Like other Palestinian militant groups, the ANO carried out worldwide hijackings, assassinations, kidnappings of diplomats, and attacks on synagogues . It was responsible for 90 terrorist attacks between 1974 and 1992. In 2002, Abu Nidal died under disputed circumstances in Baghdad , with Palestinian sources claiming that he

650-512: Was killed by the ANO in Aita al-Foukhar (village in Lebanon) in 1986. He was hanged on a rope and was shot in retaliation to US air raids on Libya. By 1987, Abu Nidal used extreme torture tactics on members of the ANO who were suspected of betrayal and disloyalty. The tactics included hanging prisoners naked, whipping them until unconsciousness, using salt or chili powder to revive them, forcing them into

676-558: Was killed by the Fatah-RC in 1983. In October 1974, the group also made a failed assassination attempt on the present Palestinian president and PLO chairman, Mahmoud Abbas . These attacks, and numerous others, led to the PLO issuing a death sentence in absentia against Abu Nidal. In the early 1990s, it made an attempt to gain control of a refugee camp in Lebanon , but this was thwarted by PLO organizations. The ANO's official newspaper Filastin al-Thawra regularly carried stories announcing

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