 He was shot and seriously wounded. Some outside the Israeli government claim the attempt was made by Iraqi agents or a Palestinian terrorist group led by Abu Nadal. Patrick Seale, a leading British writer and scholar on the Middle East, claimed the attempt was brokered by the Mossad to give Israel a reason to invade. The IDF subsequently bombed PLO bases and ammunition dumps in Beirut and attacked other targets in Lebanon on June 4th and 5th, 1982.