The Lebanese army continues to target jihadists in the Nahr el-Bared camp in Tripoli. An update on this story. By Bassem Mroue for Associated Press (thanks to Arjun):
TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Artillery and machine gun fire echoed around a crowded Palestinian refugee camp Tuesday as fighting resumed between besieging Lebanese troops and Islamic militants holed up inside, ending a nighttime lull.Lebanese troops pounded with artillery at daybreak the suspected positions of the Fatah Islam militants, seeking to destroy the group with al-Qaida ties or force them out of the Nahr el-Bared camp on the outskirts of this northern port city, Lebanon's second largest. A plume of black smoke billowed from an unknown target in the camp.
The army brought in reinforcements from other regions. Two trucks towing field artillery were seen heading toward Tripoli on the coastal highway late Monday.
The renewed fighting ended an overnight lull amid efforts for an informal cease-fire between the two sides. It was not known what sparked the exchanges.
Palestinian factions attempted to broker a cease-fire. The representative of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, Abu Ahmed Rifai, said Fatah Islam militants pledged to cease firing and withdraw from positions facing Lebanese troops. A senior officer at Lebanese army command would not say a cease-fire was reached but repeated the military's stance that it will not shoot if it does not come under fire.
The Lebanese army continues to target jihadists in the Nahr el-Bared camp in Tripoli
They are not targeting Jihadists. They are firing into a crowded refugee camp full of Jihadists and their families. The world is silent as women and children are fired upon. Imagine the outcry if Israel did one tenth as much to a Jihadist stronghold. But the world accepts this kind of Muslim butchery. It yawns at this Hama style artillery bombardment.
As sad as it is...many of those women & children are indoctrinated as the jihadists (recall farfur).
8-year old kids known to carry AK-47s, and willing to use it on you, me, anyone...is commonplace, but that 8 year old will come right at you without a thought of conscience, and would kill you in a heartbeat.
Yes, it's sad, sick, & hypocritical of the one-sided opinions...but I feel as sorry for them as I would a wolverine...
...unfortunately, if they weren't killing each other, they would be killing us (they've done deeds even worse in Jordan, where they tried to overthrow the monarchy, and paid dearly for it)...
but knowing the mental state of the palestinian jihadists myself, from a first-hand knowledge...
I wish them a long and healthy war.
It may not prove palatable...but it is the only effective way to deal with islamists.
No muslim country wants them.Can't imagine why!
"Imagine the outcry if Israel did one tenth as much to a Jihadist stronghold. But the world accepts this kind of Muslim butchery. It yawns at this Hama style artillery bombardment.
Posted by: dennisw "
You nailed it dennis w!
Indeed, if it was Israel pounding this refugee hell-hole, the mass-media, and world at large, would be heaping condemnations upon Israel.
When murderous Islamists are murdering one and other or Israelis, for that matter, the world could give a damn.
Another civil war is unavoidable in Lebanon; it will be interesting to hear the world overview when it does.
Until we, the West, acknowledge the Jihadists as a deep-rooted malignancy, which must be expunged; a cataclysmic end, for all, is certain.
"Palestinian factions attempted to broker a cease-fire. The representative of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, Abu Ahmed Rifai, said Fatah Islam militants pledged to cease firing and withdraw from positions facing Lebanese troops."
These Palestinians really do believe in peace. They’ve brokered three peaceful cease-fires in the last twenty-four hours. That’s more than most people do in a lifetime.
8:66 Now hath Allah lightened your burden, for He knoweth that there is weakness in you. So if there be of you a steadfast hundred they shall overcome two hundred, and if there be of you a thousand (steadfast) they shall overcome two thousand by permission of Allah. Allah is with the steadfast.
Talk like men, fight like women, hide behind children.
Why is it wherever palestinians are found one will also find murder and mayhem?
And jcom972 is exactly right-shed no tears for the little brats. Just keep jihad Mickey Mouse in mind-and all those other fun videos we've seen of kids wanting to kill and die as martyrs.
Where's Martin Sheen or Cindy Sheehan? Where's Amnesty International or Jimmy Carter?
Oh, that's right, it's Muslims killing Muslims.
No story here.
No outrage here.
Mo meaning here.
"Bomb rocks Beirut Sunni suburb"
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bomb-rocks-beirut-sunni-suburb/2007/05/22/1179601364792.html
The Palestinians are now flowing in from Gaza to fight the Lebanese.....
The events from Lebanon as they unfold according to Reuters in theage.au website:
LEBANESE tanks shelled Islamist militants in a Palestinian refugee camp yesterday, killing at least nine civilians and taking the death toll in two days of fighting to 66.
Tanks pounded the coastal camp of Nahr al-Bared, home to 40,000 refugees in north Lebanon, as fighters of the al-Qaeda inspired Fatah al-Islam group fired grenades and machine-guns at army posts on the perimeter, witnesses said.
The Sunni Muslim faction, which emerged late last year, has only a few hundred fighters and scant political support in Lebanon, but appears to be well-armed, organised and motivated.
Palestinian sources in the camp said eight civilians had been killed and 20 wounded, but they feared the toll would rise as rescue workers were unable to reach some areas.
Sunday's battles at Nahr al-Bared and in the nearby city of Tripoli killed 27 soldiers, 15 militants and 15 civilians — Lebanon's worst internal fighting since the 1975-90 civil war.
The violence showed how fragile security remains in Lebanon, racked by political and sectarian tensions since last year's Israeli-Hezbollah war in the south and by unsolved assassinations before and after Syria's 2005 troop pull-out.
The cabinet was due to meet later on Monday to discuss the crisis that has refocused attention on Lebanon's squalid refugee camps, which house about 400,000 Palestinians.
Abbas Zaki, the Palestine Liberation Organisation's representative in Lebanon, said he did not want the 12 camps to be "the spark that starts a civil war".
Speaking after talks with Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, he said Lebanese-Palestinian co-operation to tackle Fatah al-Islam, a foe of the PLO, must not come at a high price to civilians.
International Committee of the Red Cross spokeswoman Virginia Dela Guardia called for a truce. "We are asking that they stop fighting and establish humanitarian corridors so we can take care of the wounded and the dead," she said.
Schools shut in the sprawling Ain al-Hilweh camp near the southern city of Sidon in protest at the fighting in the north.
Militants of Jund al-Sham, another pro-al-Qaeda group, went on alert in the camp, Palestinian security sources said.
An explosion on Sunday night killed a woman in a Christian district of Beirut and wounded 10 people. It was not clear if it was linked to the fighting in the north.
Lebanese Government ministers say Fatah al-Islam is a tool used by Syria to stir instability in an effort to derail United Nation moves to set up an international court that would try suspects in the 2005 killing of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
"The criminal … who protects, supplies and supports Fatah al-Islam is the same one who killed Hariri," Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh said.
Under a 1969 Arab accord, Lebanon's army may not enter the refugee camps, leaving a security vacuum filled by Palestinian factions. They have not obeyed a 2004 UN Security Council resolution calling for all militias in Lebanon to be disarmed.
The resolution is also rejected by Lebanon's biggest armed group, Hezbollah, whose Shiite guerillas are backed by Iran and Syria.
The army's 40,000 troops are already stretched after 15,000 were sent to south Lebanon last year after the Israeli-Hezbollah war, while another 8000 were sent to patrol the Syrian border.
But they had support from Nahr al-Bared's Lebanese neighbours. "The camp has to respect the state. They are destroying Lebanon, inciting strife all because of the tribunal and Syria," said one farmer.
"Furious Street Battles Remind Lebanon of Its Past"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/world/middleeast/23lebanon.html
"U.S. mulls military funding plea from Lebanon"
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2245074720070522
Fund them.
These Palestinians had to of known what was going on! So again these people are destroying themselfs! At first I thought maybe they are hostages! They have had plenty of time to get word out what was happening in that camp! Some camp!
To also note the Lebanese army? Is this for real? They are asking the U.S. government for lots more ammo! The dhimmi's cut off our soldiers why the hell would they get it? Where's their hezboallah now?
Truce already.
"Truce in Lebanon sparks exodus"
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21780181-5012764,00.html
The U.N., meanwhile, is busy supplying food to the inmates of these camps. It is the U.N.'s responsibility to feed the jihadis so they can fight better.
Don't forget...the truce also allows them to regroup, and reload...it's the ONLY reason they ever agree to any "truce".
Or to have a little more time to finish the tunnel. Or kidnapp!
It is good news.
Muslims killing Muslims and best of all Israel not involved. While normally I care about women and children, anyone who is a paid up member of the cult of death does not have any sympathy from me.