From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 00:51:06 +0100 To: "Peoples War" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] Palestine: Fatah Leader Survives Missile Attack Palestine: Fatah Leader Survives Missile Attack ================================ Palestinians are claiming one of their leaders, who narrowly escaped death after two missiles landed near his car in the West Bank, was the target of an assassination attempt. Marwan Barghouti, an outspoken leader of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, was shaken but unhurt. But a Palestinian security official travelling in a second car was injured. Israeli security sources say the target of the attack in the town of Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem, was one of Mr Barghouti's bodyguards, who they say was personally responsible for a string of attacks on Israelis. Military sources say they "did not in any way try to kill Marwan Barghouti". Mr Barghouti, who has received extensive media coverage over his calls for Palestinian resistance against Israel, says he was leaving his office in Ramallah when the attack occurred. Palestinian security officials were travelling with him in a second car. The first missile exploded in front of the two cars, prompting the men in both vehicles to flee. A second missile hit the car belonging to the security officials, injuring one man as he tried to make his escape. Palestinian security officials at the scene say the missiles were fired from Psagot, a Jewish settlement which overlooks Ramallah. Mr Barghouti says: "If they didn't miss us with the first missile, we might be dead by now. The first missile gave us the time to run away from the car." Mohanned Abu Halaweh, a member of Arafat's elite presidential guard Force 17, suffered slight burns. Mahmoud Damra, head of Force 17 in Ramallah, says he believes Mr Halaweh was the target of the attack because it was his car that was struck by the missile. See this story on the web at http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_367484.html _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
