The cycle of political assassination
At 10 a.m. on New Year’s Eve, Dr. Thabet Thabet backed his car out of his driveway in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. Suddenly, two vehicles pulled up and its uniformed occupants opened fire. Thabet, a dentist and a top-ranking local official in Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization, was hit 14 times. Before he died, according to medical workers, Thabet said, “They did me in.” Full Story