Abdel Karim Koka, one of the founders of Gaza’s Popular Resistance Committee, was killed as he passed a booby trapped car. In addition to rocket and roadside bomb attacks, the Jerusalem Post reports that Koka was directly linked to two especially high profile attacks. One of the attacks carried a $5 million reward. The Post writes:
Koka, according to sources in the Gaza Strip, was responsible for the 2003 roadside attack on a US diplomatic convoy in the northern Gaza Strip in which three Americans were killed. The sources said Koka, who survived three attempts on his life by Israel in recent months, carried out the attack at the request of top PA and Fatah leaders, who were interested in getting rid of him to conceal their role in the scheme.
Koka’s group was also responsible for the assassination of General Musa Arafat, commander of the PA’s Military Intelligence and a cousin of former PA chairman Yasser Arafat, who was killed last summer in Gaza City.
Angry Palestinians believe Mohammed Dahlan was responsible for Koka’s death. Might he or anyone else now try to collect the $5 million reward offered by the US?
