Palestinian Civil War Watch
Charles Johnson
Thu Mar 10, 2005 at 8:10 pm PST • Views: 187
Fatah Gunmen Storm West Bank Meeting, Challenging Abbas.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Gunmen from the ruling Palestinian Fatah faction broke up a meeting of the party about reform on Thursday in a fresh blow to President Mahmoud Abbas’s bid to end internal chaos and talk peace with Israel.
Some 30 militants from the al-Aqsa Matryrs Brigades group within Fatah, firing assault rifles in the air, stormed the meeting and drove out hundreds of Fatah members, threatening to kill them, smashed windows and chairs before themselves leaving.
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