Beirut murder
NZPA— . ; Beirut Two gunmen shot and killed a former leader of a Palestinian guerrilla organisation that supports Iraq and escaped in a car behind a hail of machine-gun fire yesterday, a Beirut police spokesman, has reported. The' spokesman identified the victim as Abdoul Wahhab Kayali, aged 43, a former member of the pan-Arab command of Iraq’s ruling Socialist Baath Party. Mr Kayali also was a former head of the Iraqifinanced Arab Liberation Front, one of the eight main guerrilla groups in Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation
Organisation. .. ■■■■„. ■ Mr. Kayali retired from guerrilla activity and politics in 1979 and started a research publication and printing house with offices in the residential neighbourhood of Sakiet al-Janzir in the mostly Muslim west Beirut where he was killed at midmorning yesterday. The police said the identity of the assassins could not be established. The spokesman refused to say whether the department believed Mr Kayali’s shooting was part of the latest wave of bombings and assassinations involving pro-Iraq and pro-Iran militias in Lebanon in the last two months.
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