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...thought to be the chief hit man for Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal has been arrested in southern Lebanon. Security officials there disclosed today that they had seized Mahmoud Khaled Eintour, 48, also known as Abu Ali Majed, the man who allegedly headed the assassination branch of Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council. Lebanese officials, who plan to try Eintour on kidnapping and murder charges, blame him for hijacking a French yacht off Gaza in 1987 and arranging the killing of a top Jordanian diplomat last year. Nidal himself tops most wanted lists in the U.S., Europe and the Mideast...
...suspected terrorists at U.S. entry points. Clinton's order targets a laundry list of the infamous. Among them: Islamic Jihad, thought responsible for Sunday's killing of 19 Israelis; Hizbollah, suspected in the 1983 suicide bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut; Abu Nidal; Hamas; Black September; the Fatah Revolutionary Council; the Palestine Liberation Front; and the outlawed Jewish extremist group Kach. In Jerusalem, a Kach spokesman today warned: "We intend to fight Clinton in every possible...
...Jihad rioting outside the Palestine Mosque in Gaza City and provoked street battles that killed 13 people and left 200 wounded. A few days later, in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Arafat loyalists were fighting other opponents of the peace deal with Israel, this time dissidents within Fatah. While infighting in Lebanon is an old phenomenon, in the Gaza Strip, it was something new. "All the factions had sworn that they would never resort to violence," said Ziad Abu-Amr, an expert on Islamic fundamentalism at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. "Now taboos have been broken...
Arafat's spirits were temporarily buoyed when 10,000 Gazans rallied for him last week. Among them were several hundred Fatah Hawks, a military branch of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Hawks, who had been ignored of late by Arafat, swore, in chanted slogans, to defend him and the Authority. The militiamen then drove around the Gaza Strip, brandishing their guns and shouting slogans such as, "We shall shave the beards ((of the Islamists)) with our shoes...
...activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Bloody Friday also tainted the image of the Authority's 9,000-member Gaza Strip security force. "The uncommitted, nonpolitical man in the street is now hostile to the police," said Akram Ibrahim, a Gaza cabdriver and former Fatah activist...