Monday, January 17, 2005

MEET THE NEW BOSS.....

Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen’s Fatah party, the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, murdered a young Palestinian in a public square in front of a crowd of people after Friday prayers:

Brigades murder 2 ‘collaborators’.
A young Palestinian man suspected of “collaboration” with Israel was executed on Friday in a public square in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. Eyewitnesses said Mahmoud Mansour, 23, was brought to the center of the camp by gunmen belonging to Fatah’s armed wing, the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and shot to death in the presence of dozens of residents after noon prayers. They said the man died instantly after being hit in the head with at least 25 bullets. The assailants and camp residents refused to allow an ambulance to take the body to a hospital. Instead, they threw the body in a nearby dumpster.

It was the second killing of its kind in the Nablus area in the past two weeks. Earlier this month, Fatah gunmen in the Old City of Nablus kidnapped and murdered a 44-year old man whom they also accused of collaborating with Israel. The killing took place only hours before Fatah candidate and PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) arrived in the city on an election tour.

The Fatah gunmen who killed Mansuor said he had confessed to all the charges against him. “We didn’t use any form of physical pressure,” a spokesman for the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed. “The confession was videotaped and the fact that there weren’t any signs of abuse on his body shows that he hadn’t been tortured.”


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