Heavy gunfire breaks truce in Lebanon

Radical Palestinian Fighting resumes at Lebanon camp

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There has been renewed fighting between Lebanese army troops and Islamist militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon since Sunday.

Many of the camp's residents have fled, but thousands are still trapped inside.

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[edit on 24-5-2007 by UM_Gazz]

I don't know if anyone here knows it, but this fighting is significant. Reason is that tension between the Palestinians and Lebanese have went from 1 to plus 10. I live near the next biggest Arabic population outside of the middle-east, Dearborn Michigan. The Lebanese people that I have spoken with said all bets are off now with the Pals. The US government has just pledged full support to the Lebanese to help stop the chaos. This is a area we must keep an eye on, even more so than Iran.

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[edit on 24-5-2007 by Realtruth]

I thought this might deserve its own thread, but I decided to post it here anyway.

A senior Lebanese military official disclosed Thursday that troops had sunk two small boats carrying Islamic militants who were trying to flee a besieged Palestinian refugee camp via the Mediterranean Sea.

The official said all militants on the boats were killed Tuesday but did not specify how many died in the incident.

He spoke under customary conditions of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the news media.

Originally posted by RedGolem
I thought this might deserve its own thread, but I decided to post it

Thank you RedGolem. I hope people understand the significance of this fighting going on, this could very well be a catalyst for a major middle-east war. I hope not, but the Arabic people I have spoken to think that this could destabilize Lebanon very quickly, unless the Lebanese army stops it early on.

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Also found this

The man leading the fundamentalist Fatah al-Islam group in its six-day-old battle with the Lebanese army is a fanatically devout former Libyan air force pilot who is almost certain to choose death over surrender in the standoff at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, former comrades-in-arms say.

Even before he founded Fatah al-Islam last year, Shakir al-Abssi was a well-known militant who grew up fighting in the refugee camps of Jordan and Lebanon and dreaming of "liberating" the Palestinian territories. The last place he lived before he established his base at Nahr al-Bared is testament to that: a grungy three-room building furnished only with bunk beds, uncomfortable chairs and a messy desk in Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp near Beirut.

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