 Lebanon says a military operation against Islamist fighters based in a Palestinian refugee camp has ended after a month-long battle.
Defence Minister Elias Murr said all of Fatah al-Islam's positions in the Nahr al-Bared camp had been destroyed. The leaders of the group were now on the run, Mr Murr said.
| Headed for Syria or Somalia, your guess is as good as mine. |
More than 150 people have died at the camp, including at least 20 civilians, in Lebanon's worst internal violence since the end of the 1975-90 civil war.
| Only 20 civilian deaths sounds pretty good to me. The Lebs seem to have been really careful. |
"I can notify the Lebanese that the military operation is over," Mr Murr told Lebanese TV, saying the army had "crushed those terrorists".
| "Crushed" has a nice sound to it. |
"What is happening now is some clean-up that the army's heroes are carrying out, and dismantling some mines."
| Trying to catch the rodents as they run, before they start skulking and booming, which is really what they do best. |
Troops would continue to pursue the leaders and remaining fighter of Fatah al-Islam, Mr Murr said, suggesting that some clashes could still flare up inside the refugee camp.
| If Murr has any sense, which I think he has, he'll have the military hunt down and kill each and every one of them. Otherwise they'll be killing innocents to extract their Dire Revenge™. |
Nahr al-Bared, near the northern city of Tripoli, was home to 30,000 people before the fighting broke out. Large parts of the camp have been left in ruins after a bitter struggle that began in late May.
| My heart [Urp!] bleeds. Those 30,000 civilians didn't bother throwing the 300 or so hard boyz out of their neighborhoods when they set up. Cause, meet effect. |
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