The murder of Yasser Arafat’s cousin Moussa, the former PA “security chief,” has received substantially more attention than the attack on the Christians of Taiba over the weekend: “Arafat cousin killed in brazen challenge to Abbas.” Like the Taiba story, however, this one also hits a PA trifecta of murder, terrorism, and evidence of some relationship between the murder and the Religion of Peace:
Arafat, 65, was killed after a 30-minute gunbattle between the assailants and dozens of his bodyguards. The fighting with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles raged just a block from the headquarters of the Palestinian security service. Mr Arafat
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