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| Al-Aqsa takes responsibility, Fatah denies responsibility |
| 2002-05-24 |
| The al-Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah organization, on Friday took responsibility for the attempted attack on a Tel Aviv night club in the early hours of Friday morning, in which five people were lightly injured. A suicide bomber attempted to blow up a booby-trapped car at the entrance to a night club, and was shot and killed by the establishment's security guard. "It is our sole weapon to end the occupation of Palestine, and we will not give up our strength and resistance until victory," the al-Aqsa Brigades' statement said. The boomer was 16 years old... However, a pamphlet circulated by Fatah on Friday negated these claims, Israel Radio reported. The statements claiming the al-Aqsa Brigades were responsible for Friday morning's attack, as well as others, were misleading and in defiance of the orders of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, the organization's only spokesman, it said. Well, in that case it musta been somebody else... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |