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| More booming at Ein el-Hilweh |
| 2003-03-14 |
| Assailants threw a bomb at the house of a Palestinian activist inside Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp yesterday, causing material damage and no casualties. The bomb targeted the house of Jawad Shreidi, the brother of policeman Nazih Shreidi who was shot and killed earlier this month as he was returning to his home in the Ein el-Hilweh camp on the outskirts of Sidon. Nazih, a member of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah group, was allegedly shot by his cousin, Abdullah Shreidi, the leader of the extremist Al Nour group. His killing raised tensions in the camp and prompted a decision by representatives of various Palestinian factions to "liquidate" Abdullah Shreidi, who has also been blamed for a spate of recent bombings and violent acts in Ein el-Hilweh. He's kind of a one-man reign of terror, evidently... The 100-strong Al Nour group is a breakaway of the militant Asbat Al Ansar group, which is on the US list of terrorist organisations. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |