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| Hard boyz withdraw from streets of Ein el-Hellhole |
| 2007-06-05 |
| Fighting has eased in the Ein el Helweh refugee as the Palestinian committees have taken over and the Jund el-Sham militants who were fighting the Lebanese army withdrew from the streets. Clashes broke out yesterday between the mainstream Fatah organization and Jund al-Sham extremists in the southern refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh. The fighting later escalated to include the Lebanese army when Jund al-Sham militants threw a grenade at the army post which resulted in injuring a civilian and a Lebanese army soldier. Usbat-al-Ansar , another Palestinian Islamist militant group later joined Jund al-Sham in their fight against the army and Fatah mainstream and also fired at the civilians in the camp. Several families had to flee the camp to avoid the violence. Hundreds of them ended up at the Sidon municipality . The Municipality has since formed various committees to take care of the refugees and offer them all the help they needed. Dr. Abdel Rahman el Bizri, the mayor of Saida was also there to welcome and meet many of the families . He said later that he hoped the refugee families will all be able to return back to their own homes at the camp, as soon as the fighting stops. PLO Sec General, Sultan Aboul Ainain who is based at al Rashidya camp , headed yesterday to Ein el Helweh to form committees to intervene and supervise the ending of the fighting. The committees of the Palestinian factions met last night with representatives of the Lebanese army . Usbat-al-Ansar, another well known terrorist organization promised to control Jund el-Sham and said the fighting should stop , which it did for a while in the early morning hours but then was resumed. According to analysts Jund el-Sham started the second battle front to alleviate the pressure off the militants of the Naher Bared camp in north Lebanon, where the army has the upper hand and is expected to finish off the militants of Fatah al -Islam at any time soon. According to analysts familiar with Jund el-Sham and Fatah al -Islam there is no known organizational link between the two militant groups . But according to BBC the two groups have family ties and ideological similarities. They both share an al-Qaeda-type creed, and reports say one of the leaders of Jund al-Sham is the brother-in-law of a military commander of Fatah al-Islam. According to reports Jund el-Sham were very upset yesterday when they found out that one of the officials of Fatah al -Islam was killed. The Fatah al-Islam official, Naim Deeb Ghali, who is also known as Abu Riad, was the third-in-command of the group. Prior to joining Fatah al -Islam he was a member of Jund el-Sham . One analyst told Ya Libnan, Syria appears to be the main link between all these militant groups. Syrian president Bashar el Assad threatened Lebanon's former PM Rafik Hariri almost 3 years ago to destroy Lebanon. The Syrian president has also threatened UN Secretary General that he will destroy the whole region from the Caspian sea to the Mediterranean sea if the International tribunal for trying the killers of Hariri is approved by the UN. Last week UN voted 10 -0 in favor of UN resolution 1757 to establish the tribunal. Many analysts say Syria has financed, trained and armed these militants to execute its threats and do its dirty work in Lebanon. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 When do you know your life is a pointless error with no resolution in sight ? When you are a refugee from the refugee camp you were born in. |
| Posted by: Grusosh Borgia9229 2007-06-05 10:27 |