Islamic Jihad figure killed in Lebanon
(AP)
Updated: 2006-05-26 21:03
Security officials said a car bomb Friday killed a leader of Palestinian
Islamic Jihad — the Iran-backed militant group that continues to attack Israel.
His brother was also killed in the explosion, which the group blamed on Israeli
intelligence.
Lebanese Red Cross personnel carry Mahmoud
Majzoub, a leading member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, on a stretcher
after he was killed when a parked car exploded while he was walking with
his brother Nidal near the central square, in Sidon, 40 kilometers (24
miles) south of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 26, 2006.
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Mahmoud Majzoub, a member of the
group's policy-making Shura Council body and its leader in Sidon, 24 miles south
of Beirut, was walking with his brother, Nidal, near the central square of this
coastal city when a parked car was detonated by remote control, security
officials said.
Mahmoud Majzoub survived the blast but died during surgery, while Nidal
Majzoub was killed instantly, said the security officials, who spoke on
condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the
information.
The group has continued to launch attacks on Israel since a February 2005
truce that the main militant group Hamas, which swept Palestinian legislative
elections, has respected.
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