Wanted Palestinian leader surrenders

The top Palestinian Fatah guerrilla leader in Lebanon, facing a death sentence passed in absentia, today surrendered to a military court, which quickly retried him and found him innocent.

Maj Gen. Sultan Abul-Einein, leader of the mainstream Fatah group of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Lebanon, was sentenced to death by a Lebanese Military Tribunal in 1999 after he failed to appear in court to answer charges of leading an armed group and attacking people and public property.