Southern Lebanon camp blast kills one, wounds four (Roundup)

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Sep 23, 2008, 15:20 GMT

Beirut - A bomb concealed in a motorcycle exploded Tuesday near a mosque in a southern Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp, killing one person and slightly wounding four, Lebanese and Palestinian security officials said. Sources inside the camp said Ahmad Qassem was killed in the blast near al Nour Mosque in Ain el-hilweh camp, east of Sidon. The bomb had targeted Qassem after he finished praying inside the mosque. The Leader of the Islamic Struggle Movement, sheikh Jamal Khattad, and the Imam of al Nour Mosque told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that Qassem was seen at the mosque a few minutes before he was killed. For the past two weeks, members of the mainstream Fatah movement and others who belong to Jund al Sham, a fundamentalist group with links to al-Qaeda, have clashed in the same area. There are some 12 refugee camps in Lebanon, with security in the hands of the Palestinian factions. Ein el-Hilweh, with a population of 70,000, is the largest, and a hotbed of Islamic extremism.

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DaveSep 23rd, 2008 - 22:45:43

Someone will blame Israel.

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