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FOR a fugitive from justice, Sultan Abul-Ainain looks surprisingly relaxed, his gold lighter and watch glinting as he slips a cigarette into its holder. He is paying no attention, he explains, to the Lebanese court that sentenced him to death in October for forming an armed militia. The judgment was nothing but a political attack on Palestinians who, like himself, are loyal to Yasser Arafat. The same goes for the several recent arrests of his henchmen. He admits that he has men under arms in Lebanon's refugee camps; indeed, toughs with machineguns are milling around as he speaks. But they are at the disposal of the Lebanese government, he purrs, and would never be used against it.