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TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Military aid began arriving Friday after the United States said it will rush supplies to the Lebanese army fighting al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants barricaded inside a Palestinian refugee camp in the country's north. Meanwhile, sporadic gunfire exchanges early Friday punctured the lull in the fighting as the Lebanese army continued to build up around the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp near the port city of Tripoli. Although U.S. officials said the military aid to Lebanon had been agreed to before the fighting broke out this week, the speedy shipment Friday marked the first tangible U.S. backing of the Lebanese...

Four Palestinians killed near Syria-Iraq border http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=55463 (May 11 2007) Ten wounded in Gaza clash; defiant Hamas TV airs resistance Mickey Mouse NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon/GAZA: Syrian forces have killed four members of Palestinian group Fatah al-Islam trying to sneak across the border to join the insurgency in Iraq, the group said on Friday. A spokesman for Fatah al-Islam, who gave his name as Abu Salim, told AFP that the incident occurred on the Syrian border with Iraq almost a week ago, and that five Syrian soldiers were killed in the clash. “The Syrian forces killed two military chiefs of Fatah...

Fatah Islam vows to fight each & every "crusader"...

Militants 'will fight to the last drop of blood' By Harry de Quetteville in Shatila camp, Beirut Last Updated: 1:20am BST 25/05/2007 Islamic militants besieged inside a refugee camp in Lebanon will fight "to the last drop of blood", supporters of their leader said yesterday. Some of the refugees who left the Nahr al-Bared camp. Thousands remain trapped inside as the militants threaten to fight on The warning came as Lebanese troops clashed again with the Fatah al-Islam fighters led by Shaker al-Absi in the Nahr al-Bared camp on the outskirts of Tripoli. Al-Absi, a 52-year-old jet pilot turned Islamic...