AL JAZEERA (YEAH... THAT AL JAZEERA!):
SURE, SURE, SURE: We've heard that talk for months now. I SAY, IT'S A QUAGMIRE AND IT'S TIME FOR THE LEBANESE ARMY TO WITHDRAW.Lebanese army helicopters and tanks have resumed their bombardment of a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of the country where Fatah al-Islam fighters are hiding, a day after their relatives were evacuated. [NOTE: the two sides agreed to a HUDNA to accompish this.]
An estimated 70 fighters now remain deep inside the Nahr al-Bared camp, which is just outside the northern port city of Tripoli.
A senior military officer said on Saturday that all the 25 women and 38 children evacuated - most related to Fatah al-Islam fighters in the camp - were released after questioning.
"Now, in principle, the decision to finish (the fighters) is taken," the officer said.
The officer said fighters in the camp had no choice other than to surrender.
He said the army was "embarrassed before by the presence of civilians among them".
He did not specify when a ground assault would begin on Fatah al-Islam positions inside the camp.
General Michel Suleiman, commander of the Lebanese army, said that final military operations against the remaining fighters in the camp will take no more than 10 days, the As-Safir daily quoted him as saying.
Oh. Sorry. Wait: they're actually IN Lebanon. Hmmm... Never mind. I guess they can fight and kill the jihadists for as long as it takes to win - WHICH SHOULD BE THE ONLY MILEPOST FOR ALL OF US IN THIS BATTLE AGAINST ISLAMO-EXTREMISM.
NOTE: The jihadist group the Lebanese Army is fighting is about a year old. The fight - in a single so-called refugee camp, Nahr al-Bared, (with a population of 28,000, and just a few miles from Tripoli) - started in May, and has lasted four months.
ASIDE: I wonder, when the dust settles and the Lebanese Army has won, will the UN and the MSM call it another "Jeningrad"?
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