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| Militant ’heir’ Wacked In Ein el-Hellhole |
| 2004-02-11 |
| A Palestinian teenager whose father set up a militant group allegedly linked to al-Qaeda has been shot dead in Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in south Lebanon. Mohammed Shreidi was the last surviving son of Hisham Shreidi, the founder of the Asbat al-Ansar group. Wiped them all out. The 18-year-old reportedly tried - but failed - to lead a breakaway faction of Asbat al-Ansar after the killings of his father and brother. Guess someone objected to them "breaking away". Asbat al-Ansar and its breakaway faction, Asbat al-Nour, advocate strict Islamic rule; the former group features on Washington’s list of "terror" groups linked to al-Qaeda. And the latter was trying to make the grade. Both have clashed with other Islamist groups in the camp and with the mainstream Fatah militia. "Yeah, we hate everyone!" Three hand grenade explosions in the Ein el-Hilweh camp on Tuesday were reportedly linked to the long-running power struggle between these groups. We heard about those. Mohammed Shreidi is said to have antagonised the camp’s Fatah fighters, who blamed him for ordering grenade and bomb attacks on their members and property. I can see why that might upset them. His elder brother, Abdullah Shreidi, set up Ansar al-Nour group after their father, Hisham, was assassinated in 1991. Nobody liked Dad either. After the elder Shreidi brother died of gunshot wounds in July last year, a cycle of clashes between Islamist and Fatah militants claimed a further seven lives and wounded 24 people. It’s the Dread Cycle Of Dire Revenge. The atmosphere in the camp is said to be tense on Wednesday, with the sound of machine-gun fire being heard in the early hours of the morning - no casualties have been reported. Is there any country in the region without machine gun fire in the wee hours of the morning? Ein el-Hilweh is the largest of the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. It houses 75,000 refugees and - although guarded from the outside by Lebanon’s army - is considered to be a law unto itself within. And it’s the Law Of The Gun. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Lol! john - you've been on a roll all day, bro! Puhleeze keep coming back to RB! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-2-11 3:46:03 PM |
| #4 No relation to Nabisco Shreidi? |
| Posted by: john 2004-2-11 3:24:00 PM |
| #3 A few more details: Palestinian officials said two unidentified gunmen fired more than 15 shots at Mohammed Shreidi, an extremist whose late father, Hisham Shreidi, was the founder of the Asbat al-Ansar group. Beirut press reports have linked the group to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and Washington claims there is a connection. Its members, however, deny any links to al-Qaida. The elder Shreidi was assassinated in Ein el-Hilweh in 1991. Mohammed's brother, Abdullah Shreidi, led the extremist al-Nour faction, an Islamic fundamentalist group that split from Asbat al-Ansar, which also urges strict Islamic rule. He died in July from wounds suffered in a May assassination attempt. Mohammed Shreidi, Hisham Shreidi's only remaining son, was a member of al-Nour and had been blamed for several bombings and violent acts in Ein el-Hilweh. He had been warned several times to curtail his activities by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah faction in the camp. The attack took place around 1:30 a.m. local time as Shreidi was returning to his home in the camp's Safsaf neighborhood, a hotbed of Palestinian Muslim extremists. Shreidi was already dead when his bullet-ridden body was taken to a hospital in the camp, the officials said on condition of anonymity. I love a happy ending. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-2-11 1:58:34 PM |
| #2 I'd call it Darwin's law. |
| Posted by: B 2004-2-11 11:26:15 AM |
| #1 Nice name |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-2-11 10:48:03 AM |