The leader of an Al-Qaeda-inspired militia warned that a deadly 15-week battle that it fought with Lebanese troops at a refugee camp in northern Lebanon last year was only the beginning. "Our message to the crusaders is to expect the worst. This battle was only the beginning and we will prevail," said the audio message attributed to Fatah al-Islam's Palestinian chief Shaker al-Abssi. The message also said that the group aimed to "hoist the banner of Islam in the Levant," singling out Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and Jordan.