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PFLP leader's son killed in Beirut car explosion
The Jerusalem Post ^ | 5/20/2002 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 05/20/2002 4:24:17 AM PDT by eclectic

The son of radical Palestinian guerrilla leader Ahmed Jibril was killed Monday in a Beirut car bombing, Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla television reported.

Al-Manar, the television station of the Hezbollah guerrilla group which has close links to Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, said Jibril's son, 40-year-old Jihad, died in the explosion.

It said it had received the confirmation from Jibril's headquarters in Damascus, Syria.

The blast occurred at midday on a street off the busy shopping area of Corniche Mazraa. Lebanese police officials speaking on customary condition of anonymity said the explosion was caused by a bomb placed under the driver's seat of the Peugeot sedan.

Ambulances, sirens wailing, rushed to the scene of the explosion. Police sealed off the area and opened an investigation.

The blast wrecked the car, shattering its windows and turning its front section into a twisted heap. Its white rear door had turned red with the victim's blood and flesh was scattered for a few meters around the car.

The blast also damaged neighborhood shops and parked cars but, apart from the driver, there were no other casualties.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: payback; pflp
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To: eclectic
I am shocked, appalled and devastated at this tragic loss of human life. My condolence card is in the mail along with a huge check for lotsa lotsa flowers. Like they have at mafia funerals.
41 posted on 05/20/2002 6:30:19 AM PDT by remaininlight
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To: tupac
Dance on deluded one !! LOL!!

As if he was aiding Israel.

Thanks for the morning chuckle.

42 posted on 05/20/2002 6:34:08 AM PDT by happygrl
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To: TomGuy
 

>bomb placed under the driver's seat

>a.k.a Palestinian Whoppie Cushion.

You win best post award for this thread.

43 posted on 05/20/2002 6:35:11 AM PDT by remaininlight
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To: TomGuy
"a.k.a Palestinian Whoppie Cushion."

Now THAT's funny! ROTFL!

44 posted on 05/20/2002 6:36:41 AM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: BlueLancer
Chivington may not be the best person to quote to support your position. He was a barbarian.
45 posted on 05/20/2002 6:39:55 AM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: eclectic
Good
46 posted on 05/20/2002 6:40:58 AM PDT by Centurion2000
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To: sweetliberty
"He was a barbarian."

And I would say that you're entitled to your opinion.

47 posted on 05/20/2002 6:40:59 AM PDT by BlueLancer
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To: eclectic
Interesting. No relationship to the PLFP homocide bombing in Netanya?
48 posted on 05/20/2002 6:47:23 AM PDT by cake_crumb
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To: ohioman
If I have offended anyone with offensive or inane comments, I apologize and ask forgiveness for my sophmoric remarks. I understand that this man was a member and leader of an evil terrorist orgnization. If one lives violently by the sword one should at least have the expectation of someday dying violently by it also.
49 posted on 05/20/2002 6:47:43 AM PDT by tupac
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To: jbstrick
If the only way to take this guy out was in this manner, and doing so was vital, I would not be concerned about the collateral damage.

But I don't think either of those things is true. Would you support Israel blowing up a car on a crowded New York City street if this man was the target?

50 posted on 05/20/2002 6:49:26 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: cake_crumb
No relationship to the PLFP homocide bombing in Netanya?

Me thinks the Mossad works quickly. (24 hours). Nice job, boys.
51 posted on 05/20/2002 6:52:34 AM PDT by July 4th
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To: BlackVeil
I know it sounds funny in English, but Jihad is just a regular name.

Even so... I can't think of an American or Anglo-Saxon equivalent off hand. Can you? I mean... we have a few named Rocky in the last 20 years, but...

52 posted on 05/20/2002 6:55:02 AM PDT by Anamensis
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To: tupac
"Dance on, callous ones"

Dance on what, the grave of a terrorist? Sure. If I were a man, I wouldn't bother DANCING in it....

53 posted on 05/20/2002 7:01:24 AM PDT by cake_crumb
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To: tupac
You must forgive me, I just saw a movie that has had an affect on my thinking lately. Twelve Angry Men. Seen it?

No but I read Rose's book.

This movie set the ground swell to reduce capital punishment and eventually outlaw capital punishment for a time in the U.S.

If you believe the premise of so many coincidences occuring, (1 in X million), you could believe the defendent was not guilty.

If you believe that, hell let's open up all the jails and let the convicts out, as I'm sure there is at least a million to one chance many convicts did not commit the crime the're in prison for.

12 Angry Men - just another liberal brainwashing of the masses.

54 posted on 05/20/2002 7:04:19 AM PDT by Tuco-bad
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To: BlueLancer
"And I would say that you're entitled to your opinion."

I share SweetLiberty's opinion. He was a barbarian. The last thing the world needs is someone readvocatong the use of human scrotums for tobacco pouches.

Shoot the terrorists down, try them and hang them, blow them up where applicable...but let's not try to out-butcher the butchers.

55 posted on 05/20/2002 7:08:09 AM PDT by cake_crumb
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To: Zorobabel
Actually it was a two for. Got rid of a Muslim murder and a lousy French car. The world is a better place today. Thank you Moussad.
56 posted on 05/20/2002 7:10:03 AM PDT by Kozy
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To: cake_crumb;sweetliberty
And just when was the last time anyone had to worry about an Indian attack?

I still stand by my opinion. You kill the enemy wherever you find them, in whatever form you find them; you hammer on them, their families, their society, and their culture until they collapse under the weight of the attacks.

Fight to the finish or don't fight at all ... just roll on your backs and surrender, if that's the attitude that you want to take.

57 posted on 05/20/2002 7:12:20 AM PDT by BlueLancer
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To: Kozy
I am not so sure it wasn't Arafatty's boys.
58 posted on 05/20/2002 7:13:47 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit
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To: Tuco-bad
I guess that the capital punishment debate still goes on, but another lesson from the movie (and the book too, I suppose) was about a phenomenon called group-think.
59 posted on 05/20/2002 7:13:49 AM PDT by tupac
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To: eclectic
Could they have used the wrong propellant in the ejection seat?

I hate it when that happens.

60 posted on 05/20/2002 7:15:14 AM PDT by Vinnie
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