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aez Mamlouk, a 44-year- Hamas and Islamic Jihad at
old captain in the Pales- 1,500.
Their suicide bombings and
Presidential
tinian
Security Police, has served continued challenge to the PLO
Yassir Arafat loyally ever since leader's authority have strained
he left his native Gaza for Beirut the solidarity of the security
during the 1967 Arab-Israeli forces between the "outsiders,"
veterans of the armed struggle
war.
From his single-story cement in the long Palestinian exile, and
house in Gaza City, built a year the young "insiders," recruited
after the Israelis pulled out of locally, who earned their spurs
the strip, he shows off the me- in the seven-year intifada up-
mentoes of his service fighting rising.
Captain Mamlouk is an out-
Israel in the Palestine Libera-
tion Army: shrapnel marks on sider. A lieutenant in the PLA,
his throat, torso and arms, col- the uniformed soldiers of the
lected during the Israeli inva- PLO, he commanded a ragged
sion of Beirut in 1982. band that held up an armored
"We stopped a whole brigade column advancing on the
of tanks with rocket-propelled Lebanese capital in 1982.
Later that summer he was
grenades, mortars, anti-tank
missiles, hand grenades and forced to leave Beirut for Tunis,
mines," boasts the father of four along with all the other Pales-
sons and three daughters. tinian fighters and Mr. Arafat.
In 1986, Captain Mamlouk
"When their ground troops failed
to break through to Beirut, they was posted to the PLA camp in
had to send in the air force. I Iraq. His 4-year-old daughter
was wounded during the mas- was killed by an American bomb
sive air strikes," he says, baring during Operation Desert Storm
in 1991. His eldest son, Wahid,
his scars.
Now, along with the rest of now 19, was blinded and lost a
the 15,000 Palestinian securi- hand and the toes on both feet.
ty men stationed in Gaza, the Given his past, if he were or-
captain's loyalty is being test- dered to arrest the rebels, would
ed again. This time the chal- he obey?
"I am a soldier," he replies.
Islamic
the
is
lenge
fundamentalists' terror cam- "An army is an army. You have
paign against Mr. Arafat's peace to carry out orders. I would even
arrest my own brother, right
agreement with the Israelis.
The May 14 deadline for sur- away, if I was ordered to do so.
rendering unlicensed weapons "Of course it's difficult," he
has expired, but very few have adds. "We're all family here. I
been turned in. A conservative would be tempted to protect
Palestinian estimate puts the friends and relatives. But if
number of automatic rifles still someone was acting against my
in the underground arsenals of people, carrying out damaging
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