Justice, Palestinian Style...

Further proof of what we can expect from Gaza.

About 100 masked gunmen stormed the heavily guarded home of Gaza's former security chief before dawn Wednesday, dragged him out in his pajamas and killed him in the street in a burst of gunfire - a brazen challenge to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas just days before Israel was to hand Gaza to Palestinian rule.

Moussa Arafat, 65, was killed after a 30-minute gunbattle between the assailants and dozens of Arafat's bodyguards. The fighting with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles raged just a block from the headquarters of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service. Arafat's oldest son, Manhal, was kidnapped by the gunmen.

The Popular Resistance Committees, a violent group made up largely of former members of Abbas' Fatah movement, later claimed responsibility. The group said it killed Arafat, a cousin of the late Yasser Arafat, to punish him for alleged corruption after the Palestinian security forces had taken no action against him. "We have implemented God's law," a spokesman, Mohammed Abdel Al, told The Associated Press.