JUSTICE SLOW BUT SURE

Gaza Leader Responsible for 2003 Attack on U.S. Diplomatic Convoy Is Killed - Khaled Abu Toameh (Jerusalem Post)
Abdel Karim Koka, 44, one of the leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) who was killed Friday as he passed near a booby-trapped car, was responsible for the 2003 roadside attack on a U.S. diplomatic convoy in the northern Gaza Strip in which three Americans were killed. PRC leaders accused Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan of standing behind the assassination of Koka. Sources in Gaza said Koka, who survived three attempts on his life by Israel in recent months, carried out the attack on the U.S. convoy at the request of top PA and Fatah leaders, who were later interested in getting rid of Koka to conceal their role. Koka's group was also responsible for the assassination of Gen. Musa Arafat, commander of the PA's Military Intelligence, last summer in Gaza City.