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Lebanese army storms Fatah al-Islam outposts
Lebanese army advanced behind a curtain of fierce bombing by helicopter gunships and stormed Fatah al-Islam' outposts in a northern Palestinian refugee camp on Wednesday, local Naharnet news website reported.A commando unit controlled "buildings and outposts" that had been manned by terrorists in "fierce confrontations" that started at dawn in the Islamist militants' last pocket of resistance in Nahr al-Bared camp, said the report. It noted that the so-called Arafat Bunker remains the "last target" to be attacked by the army in the battle which broke out on May 20. The bunker, named after the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, is a fortified shelter built in the 1970s in the southern sector of Nahr al-Bared. Meanwhile, Palestinian mediator Sheikh Mohammed al-Hajj said contacts were underway to evacuate nine wounded Fatah al-Islam militants. Al-Hajj, member of the Palestine Clerics League, said the evacuation, when completed, "could be an incentive to end the crisis." The league had mediated the evacuation of families of Fatah al- Islam militants. The women and children were released and allowed to join their relatives in Lebanon and abroad. The Lebanese army have been battling with the militants of Fatah al-Islam in the Nahr al-Bared camp since May 20. The bloodiest internal violence since the Lebanese 1975-1990 civil war has killed more than 200 people. Posted by: tipper 2007-08-29 |
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