World IN BRIEF : LEBANON : Abu Nidal Factions Battle; 4 Killed
From Times staff and Wire reports
Rival factions of the guerrilla group led by terrorist Abu Nidal battled with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in southern Lebanon, killing at least four people and wounding 15, police said. The outbreak was the bloodiest between the two factions since a mutiny within Abu Nidal’s Revolutionary Council of Fatah three years ago. The new fighting erupted in the Rashidiyeh refugee camp, south of Beirut, and continued until fighters loyal to Yasser Arafat’s mainstream Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization intervened.
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