I saw a report (can't remember the link, sorry) that the muj were evacuating their own wives and kiddies from Hellhole as they prepared for personal struggle jihad. Naturally they left everyone *else's* wives and kiddies for rewarding careers as human shields and world media propaganda. | Fighting broke out in the southern Ain Hilwa camp June 3 between pro-Syrian groups close to al Qaeda and Lebanese forces. DEBKAfileÂ’s sources report the Islamist Jund al Sham (Army of the Levant) prepared its offensive by building fortifications and evacuating Palestinian families from battle arenas.
The spread of anti-government, Damascus-fomented clashes to the southern Lebanese Palestinian camp is a very serious development. It places the Palestinian refugee camps of the capital, Beirut, next in the line of fire – likewise the United Nations contingents policing the Lebanese-Israeli border. Al Qaeda elements among the Palestinians have repeatedly threatened the international force with attack.In the southern Ain Hilwa camp, our military sources report Lebanese troops must take on a coalition of radical Palestinian groups linked to al Qaeda and pro-Syrian terrorist factions, copiously armed with weapons and ammo from Damascus and its Lebanese supporters, including Hizballah. DEBKAfile’s military sources report Syria has lined up an anti-Lebanese government front of Palestinian and Islamic radicals for an orchestrated campaign of violence to derail the UN Security Council resolution establishing an international tribunal for prosecuting the suspected murderers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri. They are under orders to sow mayhem across the country against the pro-Western Fouad Siniora in Beirut and mark down UNIFIL and northern Israel as additional targets. |