Israel News : Jerusalem Post Internet Edition

The alleged leader of al-Qaida in Lebanon, Farouk al-Masri, was killed in a car bomb explosion outside his shop in the teeming Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon on Saturday morning.


Islamic and Palestinian groups blamed Israel for the assassination, which they linked to the reported flying of a IAF reconnaissance drone over the camp at the time of the explosion.


There was no Israeli comment.


Masri, also known as Muhammad Abdel-Hamid Shanouha, was reported, however, to have more than his fair share of enemies among armed Palestinian groups in the camp and elsewhere in Lebanon.