Israeli soldiers shot and killed a suspected Palestinian terrorist in a village near Bethlehem on Monday. Soldiers stationed on a hill some 200 yards from the village shot Walid Sbeh, 30, as he drove down its main street. He was a prominent member of the Al-Aksa Brigade, the military arm of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement.
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