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| Middle East |
| PFLP-GC sez they dunnit |
| 2003-03-14 |
| The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) claimed responsibility Tuesday, March 11, for an ambush in the West Bank town of Hebron that killed an Israeli soldier and wounded four others on Monday, March 10. "The Martyr Khaled Akr Forces, armed wing of the PFLP-GC, laid an ambush Monday evening on the road leading to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Al-Khalil," reported Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoting a statement by the Damascus-based resistance group. As a group of Zionist settlers was passing, they (the Palestinian fighters) opened fire, killing and wounding a number of them," it said, boasting that "the group returned to base safely." The operation came in response to the daily massacres perpetrated against our people in Palestine," the statement said, vowing to continue "the revolution until the land and its people are liberated." PFLP-GC is a different bunch from the plain vanilla PFLP. They're based in Damascus, and run by a former Syrian army captain. Last December, they lined up some financing from Iran and Libya and decided to be Islamists. Shortly after the attack, the Israeli army claimed that their tanks fired shells at the building after the Palestinian fighters refused to surrender. The building collapsed and the body of a Palestinian fighter, believed to be one of those who carried out the operation, was found under the rubble Tuesday. "Ewwww! Nasty! He looks like a pancake with lips!" A house adjacent to the building and another one in the area, in which the Israeli army claimed it found explosive charges, were also dynamited later on Monday. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |