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Wednesday
Mar252009

UPDATE: The Assassination of Kamal Medhat in Lebanon 

Related Post: The Killing of Kamal Medhat in Lebanon
Related Post: Senior Fatah Official Assassinated in Lebanon

medhat-funeralLebanese security sources are saying that Kamal Medhat (Kamal Naji), the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's deputy representative in Lebanon killed on Monday in a bombing, was " "a victim of [an] inter-Palestinian feud, due to a clear split within Fatah movement ranks". The Lebanese daily As-Safier said the dispute arose from new arrangements to separate the management of the organisation in Lebanon from Fatah's military wing, which Medhat was to lead.

Another Lebanese source, however, implied that the Islamist group Fatah al-Islam might have had a hand in the assassination. He warned that the Mieh Mieh camp in southern Lebanon, which Medhat was visiting, must not become "another Naher el-Barid camp".. Naher el-Barid, in the north of the country, was destroyed in 2007 in fighting between the Lebanese Amy and Fatah al-Islam.