Wednesday, August 25, 2004
It's exactly the story-line you'd expect to play out as the thugocracy of the PA slips further and further into an old-fashioned Maffia-style turf-war.
Haaretz - Gunmen open fire on deputy PA intelligence chief in Gaza
Tareq Abu Rajab's car flipped over after the shooting, the officials said. He was rushed to a hospital and was undergoing surgery, the officials said.
Sources said that Rajab was seriously wounded in the attack. One of his entourage was killed and three others were wounded.
A Palestinian ambulance transported Rajab to the Erez crossing, from where a Magen David Adom ambulance was to take him to a hospital in the center of the country. Due to his condition, it was decided that he be taken to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.
Rajab is second-in-command to Amin al-Hindi, whose intelligence agency has recently taken a stance critical of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.
It is not yet clear who is responsible for the attack, or whether it was the result of a personal dispute or was politically-motivated.