Posted on 05/21/2007 8:15:38 PM PDT by Pyro7480
TRIPOLI: Deep in a violent and lawless slum just north of this coastal city, 12 men with their faces shrouded by black and red-and-white scarves drilled with Kalashnikovs.
In unison, they lunged in one direction, turned and lunged in another. "Allahu Akbar," the men shouted their praise to God as they fired their machine guns into a wall.
The men belong to a new militant Islamic organization called Fatah al-Islam, whose leader, a fugitive Palestinian named Shakir al-Abssi, has set up operations in a refugee camp here where he is training fighters and spreading the ideology of Al Qaeda.
He has solid terror credentials. A former associate of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Qaeda leader in Mesopotamia who was killed last summer, Abssi was sentenced to death in absentia along with Zarqawi in the 2002 assassination of an American diplomat in Jordan, Laurence Foley. Just four months after arriving here from Syria, Abssi has a militia that intelligence officials estimate at 150 men and an arsenal of explosives, rockets and even an antiaircraft gun.
During a recent interview with The New York Times, Abssi displayed his makeshift training facility and his strident message that America needs to be punished for its presence in the Islamic world....
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
Fight on, Lebanon--"Fatah al-Islam" wages Syria's war by proxy
Ping!
How is this different from the terror group Arafat ran? They both want to kill as many Jews and Americans as possible.
I suppose Paleo Paul will blame us for these guys too....
It’s a splinter group. Apparently Arafat’s Fatah wasn’t Islamist enough for the founders of Fatah al-Islam.
Al Qaeda - Franchises available.
If this animal had a hand in assassinating an American diplomat in Jordan, and is now in Syria and Lebanon with the help of their governments, we need to retaliate.
global jihad bump
A little ‘Allahu Akbar’ here and a little ‘Allahu Akbar’ there and pretty soon we’re talking real jihad.
if the Lebanese continue to kill them, we will know that a lesson was learned the last time. Arafat (Jimmy Carter’s and Bill Clinton’s friend) destroyed Lebanon. Regardless of what happened then, the Christian population has always been the key in Lebanon, and they are dwindling.
Arafat was a slimy murderous weasel but the choice Israel faced was working with a devil they knew, or facing a devil they didn’t know. Arafat and Israel BOTH had reasons to resist the al Qaeda-inspired radical islamofascists.
Looks like they are making a widening overt move to establish a front on Israel’s border by taking over Lebanon. Bring it on. Godspeed to the Lebanese people who once again have been invaded by human locusts and God help Israel.
And someone send Nancy Pelosi back to Syria to use diplomacy to settle this issue...I’m sure no one has thought of or tried this...(sarc)
The title lacks some precision.
It did not “emerge”. It was present before the year 2000. on New Year’s eve 1999-2000, the Lebanese Army conducted a search and destroy operation in the mountains 10-15 miles east of the actual operations zone. A few dozens of Al-Qaeda operationals were taken into custody. The Syrian Army was still occupying Lebanon.
In July 2005, after the Syrian withdrawal, the newly elected parliament which generated this present government, granted these people amnesty and released them.
We saw them in action once again rampaging inside the Christian Quarters of Ashrafieh in Beirut on Feb. 5, 2006, on the occasion of Mohammed’s drawings. Between 150 and 200 were arrested then released gradually after some important “political” pressures were exerted on the judiciary.
Now their appellation has changed from Jund E Sham in Saida to Fatah Al Islam in the North.
The same political authorithy which granted them amnesty in 2005 and released them in 2006 is shy in taking the political decision to eradicate them. The government decision of Monday evening has comes retroactively after a first meeting on Sunday evening failed to take any decision. The Army had already deployed a mech brigade and entered operational activities since Sunday morning.
The ceasefire broke down at 1435 hours local time after the relief and press convoy came under fire when they entered the camp from the South after crossing the Lebanese Army lines.
P.S. The black smoke in the picture comes from a torched gaz station on the southern outskirts of Nahr El Bared.
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