Lebanese troops captured the spokesman for Fatah Islam

UK GUARDIAN/AP:

Lebanese troops captured the spokesman for Fatah Islam and three other militants early Saturday, about two weeks after the army crushed the al-Qaida-inspired group in a northern Palestinian refugee camp, a military spokesman said.

Since defeating the movement after a three-month-long siege, Lebanese troops have combed areas around the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp for militants who may have escaped during the final desperate breakout attempt on Sept. 2, in which more than 50 militants were killed and two dozen detained.

The spokesman, Abu Salim Taha, was captured in Jabal Terbol, countryside outside Nahr el-Bared and near another Palestinian camp, Beddawi.

A military spokesman, who requested anonymity until an official statement was issued, said Taha was a Palestinian-Syrian from the refugee camp of Yarmouk in Syria, and that three other militants were captured with him.

An army statement later added that the other three men were from Saudi Arabia, Syria and Tunisia and that ``an investigation is under way.''

A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of intelligence information, said some escaped militants were trying to reach and seek refugee in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh.

Fatah Islam set up base in Nahr el-Bared late last year. Its leader, Shaker al-Absi, is a Palestinian linked to the late leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Authorities say Fatah Islam is made up of Muslim militants of various nationalities.

THIS IS MORE PROOF THAT TRANS-NATIONAL JIHADISTS - SUPPORTED BY AL QAEDA AND IRAN AND FACILITATED BY THEIR STOOGES IN HIZBALLAH AND SYRIA - ARE A THREAT TO ALL DEMOCRACIES THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE, EVEN ARAB AND MUSLIM ONES - AND THAT THESE JIHADISTS NEED TO BE CHALLENGED, CAUGHT AND KILLED EVERYWHERE, AND THEY CAN BE!

EVERYWHERE INCLUDES LEBANON AND IRAQ.

AND THE PEOPLE FIGHTING THEM EVERYWHERE NEED OUT HELP -INCLUDING THE LEBANESE AND THE IRAQIS.

RIGHT NOW, TH IRAQIS NEED OUR HELP THE MOST.

LET'S KEEP HELPING THEM.

WE MUSTN'T LET THE DEMOCRATS FORCE US TO ABANDON THEM.