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  • ISLAMIST'S SHOP BLOWN UP IN PALESTINIAN CAMP

    01/02/2002 5:18:09 AM PST · by NativeNewYorker · 20 replies · 668+ views
    DeutschePresse, no url yet | 1/2/2
    Beirut (dpa) - A shop which belonged to an Islamic preacher in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain Hilweh was blown up Wednesday, Lebanese police said. The explosion destroyed the shop, which sold mainly household goods, police said. The shop belonged to Sheikh Arfan Issa, of the Association for Islamic Welfare Projects, a pro-Syrian Lebanese group which recruits in Sunni working class districts of Beirut and Tripoli and in the Palestinian camps. The group are called Habashists. Their leader, Sheikh Nizar Halabi, was murdered, allegedly by the fundamentalist Osbat al Ansar, which is on a U.S. list of ``terrorist'' ...