Camp Officials: Palestinian Authority Security

Palestinian Authority security: As they arrived, a 17-year-old Egyptian Islamist known locally as al-Bayoumi detonated an old mortar round. The explosion killed al-Bayoumi, wounded several top camp officials and narrowly missed a top Palestinian Authority security official, Mohammed al-Issi, known colloquially as al-Lino, according to The Star. Related: BEIRUT When Palestinian Authority security official Mohammed Saadi died late last month of wounds he d sustained in a clash at Lebanons Ain el Hilweh refugee camp with a group of al-Qaida-inspired jihadists who ve long controlled a section of the camp, his friends, family and security colleagues immediately took his body to the camp cemetery for a traditional Muslim burial. The attack left residents of Ain el Hilweh, as well as Lebanese authorities and security officials from the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement, convinced that the long-running struggle for control of the Palestinian camp, about an hour south of Beirut in the coastal city of Sidon, has entered a new phase, one that threatens to grow more intense as Lebanons usually small jihadist community has been bolstered in terms of men, motivation and support from al-Qaida-linked factions fighting in nearby Syria. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.