Hamas ex-minister kidnapped in West Bank
AFP
Date: 06-22-07
NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) - The former justice minister in the Hamas-dominated government that held power for a year until March was kidnapped in the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, witnesses said.
Masked gunmen seized Ahmed al-Khaldi as he left a mosque after the main weekly Muslim prayers, the witnesses said.
His abductors fired in the air to force him into their vehicle before driving off.
The former minister's kidnap was the latest in a spate of revenge attacks against Hamas in the occupied West Bank since the Islamists seized control of the Gaza Strip last week.
Loyalists of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's secular Fatah movement have ransacked offices and other institutions run by Hamas in Nablus and even stormed the Palestinian parliament building in Ramallah in search of Islamist sympathisers.
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