Palestinian commander killed in Syria buried in refugee camp

By ALBERT AJI
Associated Press

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Palestinian militant commander who was shot and killed in Syria has been buried in refugee camp on the edges of the Syrian capital, Damascus. His wife says his killers used weapons equipped with silencers. She spoke on Monday during the funeral of her husband, 31-year-old Ali Ramzi al-Aswad, a commander with the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. He was killed in the backyard of the building where the couple live in a Damascus suburb on Sunday morning. The Islamic Jihad group described the killing as an assassination by Israeli agents. There was no statement from Israel on the militant commander’s death.