Posted on 06/12/2007 11:29:13 PM PDT by HAL9000
Lebanese troops demolished the apartment of Fatah al-Islam's leader Shaker Abssi in the northern refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared camp after his terrorists killed two Lebanese Red Cross rescuers Monday.Reliable sources told Naharnet Lebanese troops stormed Abssi's apartment in the Noras compound, in the center of Nahr al-Bared, confiscated a large quantity of documents from it and demolished the whole building.
This, the sources explained, leaves Abssi's terrorists besieged in the three remaining buildings of the Noras compound.
State-run National News Agency identified the two LRC fatalities as Boulos Miimari and Haitham Suleiman.
The wounded LRC rescuer was not identified, and NNA said he was in a "critical" condition.
Clergyman Mohammed Hajj Ali, member of the Palestine Ulema League, also was wounded by Fatah al-Islam sniper fire while inspecting the camp, security sources said.
The LRC rescuers were the first relief workers hit since the confrontation first broke out on May 20 between the Army and Fatah al-Islam terrorists headed by Jordanian-Palestinian Shaker Abssi.
on Monday, Army gunners manning 155-mm howitzers and mortar batteries pounded hideouts held by the terrorists in the camp, 12 kilometers north of the port city of Tripoli, provincial capital of north Lebanon.
Smoke and dust billowed from the stricken targets as the thuds of exploding artillery shells echoed across the region, reflecting intensity of the confrontation.
Reliable sources said army shelling also covered the southern entrance to the camp, which indicates that Fatah al-Islam terrorists were trying to infiltrate out of the besieged shantytown to seek refuge in mountains overlooking Tripoli.
A security source said Abssi followers have been trying in vain to infiltrate out of the region towards the mountainous range that abuts east Lebanon's Bekaa valley, where they apparently hope to be able to find safe exit to neighboring Syria or seek refuge at bases manned by Syrian-backed Palestinian guerrillas.
Meanwhile, at least two gunboats from the Lebanese Navy were observed patrolling the Mediterranean off the Nahr al-Bared coast in an apparent effort to prevent the terrorists from escaping by boat to neighboring Syria.
The Lebanese government says Fatah al-Islam is a terrorist network affiliated with Syrian intelligence and launches attacks aimed at destabilizing Lebanon. Syria denies the charge.
This is what we should do with Mookie al-Sadr.
There is rumours, now, that Abssi is not dead and that the corpse identified as his does not match the DNA of his family. Very odd.
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