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| PFLP ''effectively wiped out'' in West Bank |
| 2002-09-10 |
| John Hawkins at Right Wing News found this, from September 2nd, in the same vein as the Hamas roundup we discussed yesterday... Israel may have effectively wiped out the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Israeli army this week arrested another two leaders of the PFLP terror group in the West Bank, according to the Jerusalem Post. A Palestinian Authority official said the Israeli crackdown on the PFLP has virtually destroyed the organization in the West Bank, though its cadres in the Gaza Strip remain intact. The PFLP's assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi last October, ostensibly in retaliation for Israel's assassination of PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa, marked the beginning of the end for the group, the official said. Since then they have been a constant target of army operations. "Their political and military leadership has been completely wiped out," the P.A. official told the Post. "In a way, you can say that Sharon has won the war against the PFLP." How very nice to hear. They'll probably try to reconstitute, but if the IDF has waxed their political leadership as well, they might be dead as an organization. We can only hope. And they've gotta get started on the Gaza ratsnest. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |