A gunny guerrilla loyal to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was shot dead overnight in a Palestinian refugee camp, the latest in a series of attacks there. Two unknown gunmen fired 11 shots at Ibrahim Shreidi, a member of Arafat's mainstream Fatah movement, while he was shutting down his electronics shop in Ein el-Hilweh camp. Shreidi, 32, was killed instantly, the officials added.
| "Instantly" as in, somewhere in the space of 11 rounds... |
The motive for the killing was not immediately known. The violence is the latest in a series of cases of shooting and bombing in Ein el-Hilweh, the scene of a long-running power struggle between Arafat's Fatah group and militant Palestinian factions. The recent attacks appear to be connected to the March 2 killing of policeman Nazih Shreidi, a Fatah member, in the camp, which to 75,000 Palestinians. Ibrahim Shreidi was not closely related to Nazih Shreidi, the officials said.
| I wonder how closely either of them was related to Abdullah Shreidi, the leader of the Usbat al-Nur nut group? All we see in this little tale is the occasional corpse; we don't see the ins and outs of the camp's internal Islamopolitix... |
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