Palestinian informants never safe
Wed May 29, 8:41 AM ET
Vivienne Walt USA TODAY
HEBRON, West Bank -- It was not yet dawn when Ahmed Amr was jolted awake in his prison cell by men wearing black ski masks. They pounded on the prison gates, chanting, ''Collaborators! Collaborators!''
''I was sure they were coming for me,'' Amr, 40, a father of nine, says as he sits in a tiny, windowless cell.
But it was not Amr's turn to die on April 23. The masked men -- from the Tanzim militia faction of the Palestinian Authority
-- called out three names. They forced the lone security guard to hand over his rifle and then dragged the three men outside, where they were shot. Two were hanged upside down on electric poles. Some locals spat on the bodies.
