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By Michael Bluhm in the Lebanon Daily Star:
BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army killed one Fatah al-Islam militant in the village of Bhannine Friday and captured four more near the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, as troops continued pursuing escaped militants, an army source told The Daily Star.A handful of fugitive Fatah al-Islam members remained close to the camp in North Lebanon, where the army besieged the militants for more than three months, the source said on condition of anonymity.
"There are a few people from one group still outside," the source added. "There are not more than four or five."
The army hoped to make more progress pursuing the escapees by Saturday morning, the source added.
Inside the largely destroyed camp, army sappers continued dismantling booby traps while troops cleared out obstacles keeping the army from examining the militants' final hideouts, said a second army source, also on condition of anonymity. Soldiers also kept up their search for militants or any weapons or materiel the gunmen had left behind, the source added.
Almost all of the roughly 80 militants who remained last weekend launched three coordinated escape attempts before dawn last Sunday, but the army crushed the last-ditch effort, killing 39 militants and capturing 21. Some militants broke out of the camp, and the army has killed and captured several militants since Monday.
Posted by Greg at September 9, 2007 1:36 AM
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Militants ? I thought they were Resistance fighters?
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at September 9, 2007 1:55 AM
Please hunt them down and kill them, every single one of them...thanks lebanese army.
Posted by: AmericanTiger at September 9, 2007 2:11 AM
This does not weaken Hezbollah. Nor does it turn the government of Siniora into a trustworthy friend of the West, or even a trustworthy defender of Lebanon. Its wonderfulness is a most local and transient passing illusion. Its rhetoric remains classic in, for example, in its absurd anti-Israel rhetoric, and nothing else can or should be expected of it. Good that the Lebanese Army crushed these people, bad if it leads to a mistaken trust, in both Washington and Paris, for the appalling Siniora and his government, or for those who, because Rafik Hariri was killed, see him as some kind of good guy. In the Middle East Infidels should get used to seeing, as in Iraq between Sunnis and Shi'a, or between Iran and Saudi Arabia, two or more groups that are mortal enemies of each other, but also enemies of the larger Infidel world.
Any bunf coming out of Washington about the true-blue ally or "friend" in Beirut is misplaced. Cast a cold eye, an eye as cold as the one that Charles Malik, Lebanon's great statesman, would cast, were he alive today.
Posted by: Hugh at September 9, 2007 2:18 AM
Uh, what, no howls of persecution, unfairness of it all from the MSM? That’s very odd… oh, wait it’s not the IDF going after “militants” lobbing crude rocket into centers of civilization. I forgot there was a script for the MSM for all of the ME region. Israel bad, USA bad, all others tragic heroes.
Posted by: senor doeboy at September 9, 2007 8:32 AM
Hugh, I recognized your "Cast a cold eye" from Yeats' epitaph on his tombstone:
http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/epitaphs/24.htm
I've written here before that I believe Yeats strangely predicts the 21st century Islamic threat in his famous poem, "The Second Coming" (1921).
To wit: "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last/Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"
Yeats is specifically talking about the Black and Tan War in Ireland, but later, in 1938, he spoke of this poem in relation to the rise of Fascism in Europe, and wrote: "Every nerve trembles with horror at what is happening in Europe."
Wow, sounds familiar, doesn't it?
BTW, Yeats ironically uses Bethlehem (Christ's birthplace) also as the birthplace of the AntiChrist, "whose violent cruelty is to dominate the new era."
Wow, sounds familiar, doesn't it?
at September 9, 2007 9:24 AM
That's the way ya do it.
The best jihadi is a dead one.
Like stamping out a virus.
But they still are mostly just the symptom; islam is the evil at the core.
Posted by: dgene at September 9, 2007 9:43 AM
Maybe that's why our resident court-jesters have been so upset lately? An uncle, perhaps?
(playing air violin at this point)
(warning-graphic, death pic)
http://haganah.org.il/harchives/006232.html
All that need be said is, like the others who deserve it...
"Man, you just got knocked the F**K out!!!"
at September 9, 2007 4:21 PM
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