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"The dozen Palestinian refugee camps scattered in Lebanon are off limits to authorities." Well, there's your problem. "Islamic militants, security forces battle in Lebanon," from the Associated Press:
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) -- Lebanese tanks pounded the headquarters of a group with suspected links to al Qaeda in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli Sunday after the northern city's worst clashes in two decades killed 22 soldiers and 17 militants.
The clashes between troops surrounding the Nahr el-Bared camp and Fatah Islam fighters began early in the morning shortly after police raided a militant-occupied apartment on a major thoroughfare in Tripoli and a gunbattle erupted, witnesses said.
Hundreds of Lebanese applauded as army tanks shelled the camp -- a sign of the long-standing tensions between some Lebanese and the tens of thousands of Palestinians who took refuge from fighting in Israel over the past decades.
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The tiny Fatah Islam is an offshoot of the pro-Syrian Fatah Uprising, which broke from the mainstream Palestinian Fatah movement in the early 1980s and has headquarters in Syria.
The group is allegedly led by Shaker Youssef al-Absi, a Palestinian living in Syria who was sentenced to death in absentia in July 2004 by a Jordanian military court. Al-Absi was found guilty of conspiring to terrorism in a plot that led to the assassination in Jordan of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley. Former al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was accused of masterminding the killing.
Some Lebanese security officials now consider Fatah Islam a radical Sunni Muslim group with ties to al Qaeda, or at least al Qaeda-style militancy and doctrine. But some anti-Syrian government officials say they are a front for Syrian military intelligence aimed at destabilizing Lebanon.
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As many other small factions in Lebanon, Fatah Islam's allegiance is sometimes questionable in this deeply polarized country.
Major Palestinian factions have dissociated themselves from Fatah Islam.
The dozen Palestinian refugee camps scattered in Lebanon are off limits to authorities, and some are controlled by armed guerrillas. Lebanese troops usually cordon off the camps with checkpoints. Their presence around Nahr el-Bared increased in recent months after Fatah Islam stepped up its actions.
Posted by Marisol at May 20, 2007 3:06 PM
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l wonder if the Hiz boys will bring out the already dead kids and babies for the media to cover from the shelling by the Lebanese army, as it worked when the IDF were bombing the Hiz boys. lets just see how it takes for those graphic pictures to show up.
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at May 20, 2007 3:20 PM
Look what happened when Israel went looking for their missing soldiers. Maybe not all people saw it but I did what a role Lebanon is playing in this. Hezboallah controls them! All very submissive! Rice goes and gives them billions of $'s for getting bombed so they can rebuild! Psst me off!! Just as Hezboallah said they were getting fianances from Iran! She still does it! Iran promised the people they would rebuild! Damn this put the guns and power right back into them!
Posted by: MZ at May 20, 2007 3:33 PM
Worst we did not get the soldiers back! MTHRS!
Posted by: MZ at May 20, 2007 3:34 PM
Ah, Moooslim Unity, ain't it beautiful?
The Only thing a Muslim loves more than Killing a Infidel is killing other Muslims.
Is this what they mean by the world living in peace and Harmony when Islam takes over?
LOL!!!!!
Posted by: MoBlows at May 20, 2007 4:16 PM
The melange of Arabs from wherever self-dubbed "Palestinians," are trouble for all host populations. Their sole purpose for existence is to kill--preferably Jews, but any others, even themselves will do. When such troublemakers raise their children as potential killers, they must be viewed as pariahs and isolated from civilized populations.
Resettlement of all "Palestinians" into any of the empty territories within the Umma is the only solution. The Western Sahara has been proposed, but any area will do as long as it is not within striking distance of people that want to live in peace--such as the Israelis (Jewish ones).
Posted by: unicorns62000 at May 20, 2007 4:37 PM
I imagine the only lebanese who actually approve of fighting back against the Palestinians are Maronites, Druze and the more intelligent muslims who were already integrated with the rest of labanon during its birth in the 40s. Their voices, forever ignored by the West, are only vioces in Lebanbon who should even matter. Again, it's a sign of much work is left in educating Westerners about jihad when they can't even understand that Islamics like Palestinians, Hezbollah and other muslims have no business being in lebanon at all; certainly they should never be viewed as *victims* of Israeli of Christian aggression.When people ever bitch and moan about Israeli *dominance* in the middle east, they need to just look at the size of Israel and Lebanon, compare them to the other 20 states, all gigantic in proportion to Israel/Lebanon, and then have them expalin why out of 22 states it was considered so unfathomable that 2 states the size of Israel and Lebanon should be created so that one has Jewish and one has Christian dominance.
Just as an inquiry, does anyone know, accurately, what the *real* demographics of Lebanon are? I definitely don't trust our own media to give us an accurate portrayal. I've heard that if you add together the Catholics and the Druze arabs, they would still make up a majority in lebanon. Is that actually true? If so, it would so so sweet if they could but whatever ethnic and political differences they have to get their nation back, by hook or by crook or any means necessary really, and help Lebanon recover from the effects of decades of violent jihad.
at May 20, 2007 4:40 PM
Anyway to send Hizbullah forces north, since these Fatah fighters do threaten Shia domination of Lebanon? Here's to another Lebanese civil war.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at May 20, 2007 4:43 PM
It's merely the predicted attempt at takeover of Lebanon by islamists...
...it's what they've had planned all along, even since before their civil war over 30 years ago.
It's also why record numbers of lebanese Christians are fleeing Lebanon in droves-they're getting out while they can...and I don't blame them.
It's only going to get worse, too...a LOT worse.
Just preludes to the upcoming main event.
at May 20, 2007 5:40 PM
"how iran took control of basra"?????
simple...political correctness.
Posted by: jcom972 at May 20, 2007 5:44 PM
When I think of loaded Lebanese tanks, I think of what's going on in Islamabad, you know, what with the ISI and the Taliban and al-Qaeda, that kinda stuff. That's what I think about when I hear about Lebanese tanks.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at May 20, 2007 5:48 PM
I see someone bribed the Lebanese Army to mix things up just like someone bribed Fatah to mix things up with Hamas.
Wonder who that could be....probably the same bald guy playing chef with the Israeli state to save his job.
Posted by: Lame Cherry at May 20, 2007 6:18 PM
@ topic...
I smell syrian involvement in this (it's got their handiwork written all over it, especially since they're facing the music on political murder in Lebanon that everyone knows committed it).
Posted by: jcom972
at May 20, 2007 10:57 PM
Maxwell, if you add up the Christian and Druze populations of Lebanon, they still make up less than 30% of the population in total. I read somewhere that the Christian population had fallen to 22%, and the Druze population is probably less than 5%. And to think Christians made up 60% of the population in 1960, and today they're leaving at the rate of 60,000 a year - meaning that they will have virtually vanished from Lebanon in around 16 or 17 years at this rate, thanks to the likes of Hizbollah. What a difference 47 years makes.
Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at May 21, 2007 5:47 PM
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