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Fatah to round up arms in Lebanon refugee camps
 RASHIDIYEH - Fatahs chief in Lebanon said on Sunday his Palestinian faction would round up weapons from refugee camps amid growing calls for militias in the country to be disbanded. We have decided to collect all the weapons we possess, including individual arms, and put them in secure places (inside the camps), in accordance with the wishes of the inter-Lebanese dialogue conference, said Sultan Abul Aynain.
| I like this; makes the job of an American or Israeli F-16 much easier. |
There are believed to be 380,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon, many of them in dire conditions in 12 refugee camps.
| Kept that way by the UNRWA and their fellow Arabs. |
Parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri said on Tuesday that participants in the inter-Lebanese talks supported disarming Palestinians outside the camps in six months and the state re-establishing its authority on all Lebanese territory.
| Which would be a first, and wouldn't have happened without George, Condi and Jaques. |
A September 2004 UN Security Council Resolution calls on Lebanon to assert sovereignty on all its territory and disarm all militias, including armed Palestinian factions and the armed wing of Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.
Aynain also reasserted the authority of the Palestine Liberation Organisation -- of which Fatah is the largest faction -- as the only legitimate representative of Palestinians in Lebanon. The PLO does not include Palestinian Islamist groups such as Hamas, which trounced Fatah in Januarys elections, or pro-Syrian groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, which has been involved in a number of shooting incidents outside Palestinian camps.
| They'll try to hold their weapons out, likely in the Bekaa, or held in trust by their Syrian overlords. |
Posted by: Steve White 2006-03-20 |
