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Palestinians held over US convoy attack
Palestinian police have arrested at least five people in connection with the attack on a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Palestinian sources said the suspected militants were arrested after a brief gunfight at the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza. Some of them are said to belong to the Popular Resistance Committee — a militant splinter group from Yasser Arafat’s mainstream Fatah movement.
Looks like DEBKA was right this time. This'll be Yasser's back-channel, plausible-deniability private mob...
The Popular Resistance Committee is a group of local militias — including many disgruntled former policemen — set up months after the start of the intifada to defend Palestinian refugee camps. The left hand They have denied involvement in Wednesday’s attack — after an initial statement by the right hand admitting it.
Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-10-16
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=19944