Monday, April 3, 2006
According to this article by Khaled Abu Toameh, Fatah official rejects Haniyeh's call, the latest victim of the Palestinian civil war, Abdel Karim Koka, was the guy responsible for the murder of three Americans in Gaza in '03, there to deliver scholarships for Palestinian Arabs. (See: 'EU demands action from Arafat after roadside bombing in Gaza" and Messing with the Wrong People.)
...Koka, according to sources in the Gaza Strip, was responsible for the 2003 roadside attack on a US diplomatic convoy in the northern Gaza Strip in which three Americans were killed. The sources said Koka, who survived three attempts on his life by Israel in recent months, carried out the attack at the request of top PA and Fatah leaders, who were interested in getting rid of him to conceal their role in the scheme...
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