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| Fruit merchant murdered in Ain al-Hilweh |
| 2003-02-25 |
| A 40-year-old fruit merchant was found dead Monday in Ain al-Hilweh, just before a newly formed security strike force began patrols of the camp to look for suspects. The body of Abed Hourani was found inside the camp’s fruit market, only hours before a formal meeting of the three major factions within the Sidon-area refugee camp was due to take place. The dead man was shot in the head once and several times in the body. No information was released on the cause of the killing. My guess is that somebody didn't like him... The meeting was to give the camp’s joint security force, called the Palestinian Armed Struggle, the authority to maintain calm in the camp. They named the cops the Palestinian Armed Struggle®? These guys have way too much sense of the dramatic... But bullets were fired Monday as a Palestinian Armed Struggle® patrol approached Hourani’s home. Some reports said that the bullets were fired by the dead man’s family in anger. Other reports said they were fired by fugitive Abdullah Shridi. It being Ain el-Hilweh — I believe that's Arabic for "festering sore" — Shreidi probably bumped him off for putting the bruised peaches at the bottom of the basket... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |