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2007-05-21 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Army lays siege around camp as fight continues

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Posted by Steve 2007-05-21 07:42|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 The MSM has is in a vocabulary quagmire as they "pound" out these stories.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-05-21 07:59|| 2007-05-21 07:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's hoping the Lebanese are going to use the al-q infestation as a valid reason to just excise the entire "refugee-camp" tumor once and for all...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-05-21 08:50|| 2007-05-21 08:50|| Front Page Top

#3 EXCAL :) LOL. I love when the MSM doesn't have a clue and needs a score card to sort out the bad guys from the bad guys.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-21 10:30|| 2007-05-21 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 The MSM is in a vocabulary quagmire

lol! Do you mean like this line?
The clashes are a significant blow to a country already mired in a dire political crisis between the western-backed government and Hezbollah-led opposition.

They are such a joke. Too bad they don't get it.

Posted by Angaiger Tojo1904 2007-05-21 10:41|| 2007-05-21 10:41|| Front Page Top

#5 I find the whole thing amazing: the Lebanese army is actively fighting not only the Palestinians in the camps, but Hizb'allah as well. This is the same Lebanese army that is supposed to be riddled with Shiite Hizb'allah supporters throughout the ranks, that Hizb'allah leadership only last summer claimed that should the army tried to fight them a majority of the soldiers would refuse, that stood by while Syria rearmed Hizb'allah with Iranian weapons smuggled underneath vegetables. The same Lebanese army that was helpless when attacked by Palestinians from the camps not long ago, who'd extended their control beyond the camp gates to the point of attacking with impunity army units patrolling nearby neighborhoods.

Truly amazing. Long may it last.

Posted by Thrurt Lumumba1706 2007-05-21 12:33|| 2007-05-21 12:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Whoops! Lost cookie alert! 'Tis I, Thrurt Lumumba1706.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-21 13:18|| 2007-05-21 13:18|| Front Page Top

#7 I wuz just watching Fox in the breakroom. They were showing video of some of the fighting. This isn't just a fire-fight, it's pretty heavy. Lots of smoke, explosions, and bodies.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2007-05-21 13:47|| 2007-05-21 13:47|| Front Page Top

#8 The New York Times, which occasionally gets things right, has this to say link :

On Sunday, Lebanese citizens, who hold the Palestinians responsible for sparking the civil war in 1975, cheered the army on the streets of Tripoli and outside the camp.

Fatah al-Islam has been a growing concern for security authorities in Lebanon and much of the region. Intelligence officials say that the group counts between 150 and 200 fighters in its ranks and that it subscribes to the fundamentalist precepts of Al Qaeda.

The groups leader, Shakir al-Abssi, is a fugitive Palestinian and former associate of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia who was killed last year in Iraq. In the six months since he arrived from Syria, Mr. Abssi has established a base of operations at the Nahr al Bared camp, the scene of the fighting on Sunday.

What began as a raid Sunday on several homes in Tripoli in pursuit of suspected bank robbers connected to Fatah al-Islam quickly escalated into an open confrontation with the group at their stronghold in the camp. Three soldiers and four militants were killed in the early morning confrontation, said a Lebanese security official who was not authorized to speak publicly. Hours later, they said, militants tied to the group attacked an army patrol in the Koura region south of Tripoli, killing four more soldiers. The gunmen also attacked soldiers who were passing by and were unaware of the fighting, said Lebanons information minister, Ghazi Aridi.

Residents of Tripoli expressed support for the armys efforts. This should have happened from the start, said one man, who stood in a crowd of onlookers as the tanks fired into the camp. The crowd shouted, God is great, and God protect the army, with each shell fired. We wish the government would destroy the whole camp and the rest of the camps, said another in the crowd, Ahmad al-Marooq. Nothing good comes out of the Palestinians.

Residents of the camp said that water and electricity had been cut off.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-21 16:52|| 2007-05-21 16:52|| Front Page Top

#9
Residents of the camp said that water and electricity had been cut off.

This begs the question .... Why can Israel do shut off water and electricity in Gaza?

Liberalhawk?

Posted by 3dc 2007-05-21 16:57|| 2007-05-21 16:57|| Front Page Top

#10

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Posted by wxjames 2007-05-21 18:47|| 2007-05-21 18:47|| Front Page Top

#11 We wish the government would destroy the whole camp and the rest of the camps, said another in the crowd, Ahmad al-Marooq. Nothing good comes out of the Palestinians.

Heh.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-05-21 18:49|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-05-21 18:49|| Front Page Top

#12 We wish the government would destroy the whole camp and the rest of the camps, said another in the crowd, Ahmad al-Marooq. Nothing good comes out of the Palestinians.

Boy nails it in one.

Posted by Mac 2007-05-21 19:04|| 2007-05-21 19:04|| Front Page Top

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