LEBANESE ARMY BATTLES AL QAEDA IN "PALESTINIAN REFUGEE" CAMP

YAHOO/AFP:

Eleven people were reported killed in fierce fighting between Lebanese soldiers and Al-Qaeda linked Palestinian extremists in northern Lebanon on Sunday, the bloodiest such clashes in years. The battles erupted at dawn on the streets of the northern port city of Tripoli and inside the neighbouring Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, an AFP reporter said.

Seven Lebanese soldiers and four militants from the Islamist extremist group
Fatah al-Islam were killed, the head of Lebanese Security Forces General Ashraf Rifi told AFP.

ABC:

The army had tightened its grip around Nahr al-Bared camp since authorities charged Fatah al-Islam members with twin bus bombings in a Christian area near Beirut in February. Three civilians were killed by the bombs.

The Lebanese government has accused Fatah al-Islam, a Palestinian-led group that broke away from the Syrian-backed Fatah al-Intifada last year of being linked to the Syrian government.

SUNDAY TASMANIAN:

Lebanese authorities have accused Fatah al-Islam – a Palestinian splinter group said to be ideologically close to the al-Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden – of working for the Syrian intelligence services.

The group was also accused of carrying out bus bombings in a mountainous Christian area north of Beirut in February that left three people dead.

We should have taken Assad down i 2005. Two years later and this assassinating/Iran/Al Qaeda supporting tyrant is still wreaking havoc in Iraq and Lebanon and Israel.

We should just whack him.

Meanwhile, it's nice to see the Lebanese taking much needed actions like these. After all, SOMEONE HAS TO KILL THE ENEMY!