PLO Leader Killed in Lebanon Roadside Blast

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 23, 2009 10:58 AM CDT

(Newser) – Top PLO official Kamal Medhat and at least three of his bodyguards were killed by a roadside bomb near a refugee camp in southern Lebanon today, security officials tell al-Jazeera. Television footage showed Medhat’s car being blasted into a large crater. A Fatah spokesman... Read full story »

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