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Israel responsible
PALESTINIAN and Lebanese officials say they have no doubt that Israel was behind a car bomb that killed Jihad Jibril, a senior commander of the radical Palestinian group PFLP-General Command and the son of its founder-leader, Ahmed Jibril, in Beirut on Monday.
Click to view captionJihad Jibril, 38, commanded the group's military operations in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon, the PFLP-GC said.
He was driving his car down a street off the busy Mazraa Corniche in West Beirut when the bomb detonated at midday, Lebanese police said. The blast wrecked the car, dug a hole in the street and scattered bits of Jibril's body for several metres around.
In Damascus, a somber Ahmed Jibril said he would not be daunted by the assassination of his son. "He is just like the other martyrs falling on the land of Palestine. We will stay the course of martyrs until victory and the achievement of our goals," Jibril said.
When asked who was responsible for the assassination, Talal Naji, an aide to Ahmed Jibril, said, "Israel alone."
Jibril's death raised fears in Lebanon of a possible deterioration in security, especially that the body of a leading Phalangist politician who was kidnapped recently was discovered on the same day of Jibril's assassination.
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