Police in Austria say they have arrested a leading member of the radical Palestinian group led by Abu Nidal.

They said the woman -- named as Nimer Halima -- was arrested on Thursday but gave no further details.

One unconfirmed report said she was arrested while trying to withdraw about eighty-million dollars at a bank in the capital, Vienna.

Abu Nidal's group, the Fatah Revolutionary Council, has been blamed for the death or injury of nine-hundred people in twenty countries since 1973.

The American State Department has described it as the most dangerous terrorist group in existence.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service