Fatah Hands Over al-Ordoni to Army for Interrogation over Starco Blast

The Palestinian Fatah movement on Sunday handed over one of its officials to the Lebanese army for interrogation over the case of the Starco area blast that killed former finance minister Mohammed Shatah and seven other people.

State-run National News Agency said the movement handed over “the commander of the Shatila Martyrs Brigade, Colonel Talal al-Ordoni, to the army's intelligence directorate, which will hear his testimony over the issue of the stolen car that was used in the Starco bombing.”

On Friday, As Safir newspaper quoted a detainee identified as Abu al-Daoud as saying that the Honda CRV used in the attack "entered the Ain el-Hilweh camp some time ago and was given to a man nicknamed Talal al-Ordoni.”

It later turned out that al-Ordoni is a member of Fatah Movement, not Fatah al-Islam as mentioned in the newspaper's report.

In an interview with al-Jadeed television on Saturday, al-Ordoni said he was willing to turn himself in.