The huge car bomb blast that rocked Gaza City Tuesday night, October 12, sounded more like Baghdad than a Palestinian-controlled area. It was timed to blow up as the convoy carrying Mussa Arafat, commander of the Palestinian security forces in the Gaza Strip and chief of Palestinian military intelligence, was leaving his headquarters. The attack missed. Arafat survived unhurt from the first Palestinian car bomb attack on a fellow Palestinian. Mussa never foregoes the trapping of the boss, any more than his uncle and superior, Yasser. Whenever he goes out, he presents his many foes with a very large and noisy target. The streets of Gaza empty as his convoy of six to eight armored cars tears about with sirens wailing and lights flashing. Lying in wait for this grand convoy Tuesday night was a booby-trapped car activated by remote control, a device never seen in the Gaza Strip from 1994 when Yasser Arafat and his top men took charge of the Gaza Strip in the wake of the Oslo Accords. This form of assassination was much practiced by the Hizballah against US forces in Beirut and Israeli forces in south Lebanon. It is now the preferred weapon of Abu Mussab al Zarqawi's terrorists in Iraq.
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