Posted on 09/06/2005 10:02:27 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
Dozens of armed Palestinian gunmen storm house of Moussa Arafat, Yasser Arafat's cousin, Wednesday morning and shoot him to death. Arafat removed from post earlier this year amid corruption charges News agencies
Dozens of Palestinian gunmen stormed Wednesday morning the house of former Palestinian security chief in Gaza Moussa Arafat, took him out to the street and then shot him to death.
Arafat, 65, the cousin of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, was taken to a Gaza hospital following the attack but doctors said he arrived there dead.
Palestinian police officials said Arafat's eldest son, Nimhel, was either killed by the gunmen or managed to escape. Before storming the house, the assailants apparently fired grenades or mortar shells at the structure.
Arafat was removed from his post in April by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in an attempt to fight corruption among security officials.
Arafat has already survived several assassination attempts in the past. In October of last year a car bomb exploded near a PA security headquarters in Gaza near his convoy. Arafat, however, escaped unhurt that time. In July 2003, a rocket was fired at the Gaza compound where his office was located, but it hit a prison and lightly hurt 10 Palestinian prisoners.
Meanwhile, tensions between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas terrorists grew in recent days, particularly following the explosion two days ago in a Gaza building where a senior Hamas figure resides.
Following the blast, PA officials were quick to blast the storage of weapons at residential homes and crowded population centers and said the incident proves the "weapons anarchy" in the PA must end.
Palestinian officials noted the investigation into the explosion is only looking into the possibility of a "work accident" by terrorists.
Gee ...too bad.
I'm all choked up.
Nice to see the Palestenian system of justice is functioning smoothly. Too bad they aren't actually Palestenians, because Palestine doesn't actually exist.
"Palestine doesn't actually exist."
Everyone has always known throughout history that the land that the Romans renamed "Palestina" is the eternal homeland of the Jewish people.
Several dozens of them shot the guy and he (age 65, too) was left sufficiently alive to be taken to the hospital?
You're forgeting that an Arafat is really hard to kill. Like, how many times did Yassar 'die' before he was really dead?
in my head i'm hearing a funky bass line from Queen.....
Security chief? A palestinian?
Come on now don't you mean another murdering terrorist palestinian?
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