Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon - Update Ten

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon
Update Ten
Sunday, September 02, 2007
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Islamist Militants Killed In Lebanon
As They Tried To Flee Camp

At least 20 Islamist militants and two Lebanese soldiers were killed on Sunday in a battle near a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, a security source said... The Fatah al-Islam militants had been attempting to flee the Nahr al-Bared camp... It was not clear if any militants remained in the camp or what had happened to Shaker al-Abssi, the Palestinian leader of a group...
Read this story in full at YNetNews.com

>>> JPost.com has this take on the story and it goes in part like this... Dozens of residents took to the streets of Mohammara, waving Lebanese flags and honking their horns as troop convoys poured into the area with soldiers flashing victory signs...
Read the story at link below...
Resistance by militants in Nahr el-Bared collapses

>>> Aljazeera.net has this report this morning...
Fighting 'over' at Lebanon camp

>>> Africasia.com reports this...
[In this article one will find...] Key events in the three-month battle between the Lebanese army and Islamist fighters in Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, where the military said it crushed the last militants on Sunday...
Read more at link below...
Timeline of Lebanon battle against Islamists

* Sounds to me like the fighting, which erupted on May 20th, might have finally come to an OLD WEST... escape/shootout ending.

Nothing left now but the mop up and then the cleanup/rebuilding anew of this completely destroyed Refugee Camp that before the fighting... held 31,000 residents.
AubreyJ.........

File photo by YaLibnan.Com website

* BREAKING NEWS *
Al-Absi, Leader of Fatah al-Islam
Is Dead...

Yalibnan.com is reporting... Shaker Youssef Al-Absi, the fugitive leader of the Fatah al-Islam militants was killed today as he was trying to flee the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon. This information was confirmed by a hospital in Tripoli and by Lebanese army sources... According to army sources, Al-Absi was killed in the morning and his body was found near the eastern section of the camp...
Read the rest of this good news at link below...
Al-Absi, leader of Fatah al-Islam is dead

Post Update - Monday, September 03, 2007
Yalibnan.com has this story out today and it goes in part like this... Lebanese soldiers are searching the north coast for remnants of an Islamist militant group a day after it was routed from a Palestinian refugee camp. The army crushed Fatah al-Islam resistance in Nahr al-Bared camp after a 106-day siege costing 250 lives...
Read the rest at link below...
The victory: Lebanon's army hunts rebel remnants

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon - Update Nine

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon
Update Nine
Saturday, July 28, 2007

Photo by YaLibnan.com website

* YaLibnan.com website brings us this new today and it starts off like this... Lebanese Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman said Saturday in a rare statement that the showdown against Fatah al-Islam militants reached its final stages...Suleiman said that the much-awaited final assault against the remaining members of the terrorist group in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp was "imminent"...
Read the rest in full at link below...
Lebanese Commander to declare victory over terrorists soon

* USAToday.com website has this... Lebanese troops stormed a hideout of Islamic militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Saturday, killing eight, the state-run National News Agency reported...
Read the rest at link below...
Lebanese troops kill 8 militants in refugee camp

* Irland.com website has this take on the story... Islamist militants killed two Lebanese soldiers in fierce fighting at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon today, security sources said...
Read the rest at link below...
Islamists kill 2 Lebanese soldiers

More to come...

AubreyJ.........

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon - Update Eight

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon
Update Eight
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

On June 21st... Lebanese officials claimed victory after troops seized Fatah Islam positions on the camp's edges. Ever since then... the MSM has more or less forgotten the story completely... yet the fighting still goes on.

With that said... lets get caught up with the battle in Lebanon...

>>> The YaLibnan.com website has this report out today. It starts off like this... Lebanese army troops unleashed a barrage of artillery and tank shells on the northern Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in an effort to seize the remaining pockets controlled by Fatah al-Islam militants... Troops advanced towards fortified positions of Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp on Wednesday, in what political sources said was the start of a final assault to root out the gunmen...
Read the rest at link below...
Lebanese army close to eliminating Fatah al-Islam terrorists

More to come...

AubreyJ.........

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon - Update Seven

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon
Update Seven
Friday, July 13, 2007

Back on June 21st... Lebanese officials claimed victory after troops seized Fatah Islam positions on the camp's edges. Ever since then... the MSM has more or less forgotten the story completely... yet the fighting still goes on.

With that said... lets get caught up with the battle in Lebanon...

>>> The NDTV.com website has this take on the latest news coming out of Lebanon today. It goes in part like this... Islamic militants fired back volleys of rockets at the Lebanese army on Friday as troops pounded the remaining suspected hideouts of the Fatah Islam fighters holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon...
Read the rest at link below...
Lebanese army bombs Nahr el-Bared

>>> YaLibnan has this report today... Five Katyusha rockets landed in the plains of Arqa and Beit Hadara in the north Lebanon's Akkar province between 7 and 8 am Friday, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported...
Read the rest at link below...
11 rockets fired from Nahr el Bared camp landed in N. Lebanon

>>> ITV.com has this report... The death toll continues to rise at a Palestinian refugee camp in the Lebanon almost eight weeks after fighting began... At least 214 people have been killed in battles between Lebanese troops and al-Qaeda-inspired militants, making it the country's worst internal violence since the 1975-1990 civil war...
Read the rest at link below...
Lebanon: refugee camp battle rages

More to come...

AubreyJ.........

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon - Update Six

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon
Update Six
Sunday, June 17, 2007

>>> YaLibnan.com has this report today... The Lebanese army has wrested control of over 90 percent of Fatah al-Islam strongholds in the northern Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, the Lebanese National News Agency said Sunday... According to the report, the southern and eastern parts of Nahr al-Bared were now under "full army control."
Read the rest at link below...
Lebanon's army now controls over 90% of Militants' strongholds

>>> YaLibnan.com also has this report...
Lebanon army expected to finish off militants within 48 hours

More to come...

AubreyJ.........

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon - Update Five

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon
Update Five
Monday, June 11, 2007

>>> YALIBNAN.com had this report late Sunday night, June 10th that started off like this... The Lebanese army discovered about 40 corpses of terrorists as it advanced in its war against Fatah al Islam at the Nahr el bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon...
Read the rest at link below...
Lebanon army discovers about 40 corpses of terrorists

>>> The Stuff.co.nz website has this report out early Monday morning and it starts off like this... Fighting between the Lebanese army and al Qaeda-inspired militants in north Lebanon entered its fourth week on Sunday and three soldiers died from wounds sustained in the conflict...
Read the rest at link below...
Lebanon camp battle enters 4th week

>>> EARTHtimes.org put this report out midday Monday... Two Red Cross workers were killed on Monday at the entrance of Nahr al Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon, Red Cross sources said... He said it was not clear if they were shot by gunfire or a shell that had fallen on their car from the shelling.
Read the rest of the story HERE

More to come...

AubreyJ.........

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon - Update Four

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon
Update Four
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

>>> The Brunei Times...
AL-QAEDA-inspired militants in north Lebanon threatened yesterday to take their fight to other parts of Lebanon and beyond if the Lebanese army did not stop attacking a Palestinian refugee camp... "If the army continues to bomb civilians and pursue its inhumane practices... we will move within the next two days to the second phase of the battle," [said] Fatah al-Islam military commander Shahin Shahin...
Read this story in full at link below...
Threat to step up Lebanon war

>>> YALIBNAN.com...
The Lebanese army seized a truckload of weapons coming from Syria intended for use in new battle fronts to ease pressure on Fatah al-Islam militants locked up in fierce fighting with army troops trying to crush the terrorists entrenched inside the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared... The daily An Nahar on Wednesday said Lebanese authorities also discovered a depot containing more than 200 kilograms of explosives in house raids on suspected Fatah al-Islam militants in the northern Akkar province...
Read this report in full at link below...
Lebanon seizes Hezbollah truckload of arms coming from Syria

>>> TAIPEI TIMES...
The leader of the mainstream Palestinian faction said the resolve of the besieged militants was weakening, with at least three rebels giving themselves up...
Read the rest below...
Fatah says rebels surrendering

More to come...

AubreyJ.........

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon - Update Three

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon
Update Three
Saturday, June 02, 2007

* Fighting Back With Us Ammo And Weapons *
Video Posted on LiveLeak by barnesy
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>>> Lebanese Army gunners pounded the remaining outposts of Fatah al-Islam terrorists in the northern refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared Saturday as militants sought refuge in mosques and medical centers... Reliable sources said at least 42 Fatah al-Islam militants have been killed since the new round of fighting broke out at dawn Friday... The Army... lost five...
Read this story in full at YaLibnan.com

>>> GulfNews.com has this report...
Lebanon battle intensifies
Here’s two more articles at the GulfNews.com website:
* Militants scoff at Siniora's offer
* Militants refuse to surrender

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>>> Naharnet.com has a short report this early Sunday morning...

Fatah al-Islam's Plot: Lebanese 9/11 Bombings

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* Nahr el Bared Fighting *
Brazilian journalist covers the big offensive of the Lebanese army on Fatah al Islam positions. A photographer and him were inside a house, 200m from the battle. The Lebanese artillery was behind them on a hill and the tanks and soldiers in front of them.
Info and Video Posted on LiveLeak Sunday morning by dwencl
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More to come...

AubreyJ.........

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon - Update Two

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon
Update Two
Friday, June 01, 2007

Video from Today, (Friday,) CDT

* Fighting erupts at besieged Lebanon refugee camp *
Video Posted on LiveLeak by smeblee
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>>> The IrishExaminer.com website has this Breaking News Report... Under the cover of artillery barrages, dozens of Lebanese army tanks and armored carriers today moved against Islamic militants barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon... The artillery bombardment sent clouds of white smoke rising out of the Nahr el-Bared camp outside Tripoli where Fatah Islam militants have been holed up in a 13-day siege by the Lebanese army...
Read the story in full at link below...
Lebanese army moves against militants in camp

>>> EuroNews.net has this short report and video that starts off like this... Renewed heavy fighting has erupted between Lebanese troops and al-Qaeda inspired Palestinian militants, who are holed-up in a refugee camp in northern Lebanon. The Lebanese army is surrounding the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, determined to crush the Fatah al-Islam group...
Read the rest and watch the video HERE

>>> The YALIBNAN.com website has this take on the story today... The Battle for Nahr al-Bared began this morning. The intense Lebanese army artillery fire on the Palestinian refugee camp appears to be the beginning of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's plan to eliminate the Islamist Fatal al-Islam faction...
Read the story HERE

More to come...
AubreyJ.........

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon - Update One

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon
Update One
Friday, May 25, 2007

* Video from Thursday Night, CDT *

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>>> YALIBNAN.com...
Military aid began arriving Friday after the United States said it will rush supplies to the Lebanese army fighting al-Qaeda-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...
Read the story at link below...
Lebanon army receives U.S. military aid

>>> TheTrumpet.com website has this take on the story and it goes in part like this... Are Iran and Syria showing the West they have more tools at their disposal than simply Hezbollah? Is the unrest caused by Fatah al-Islam a warning from Iran that if it doesn’t get what it wants from the U.S. out of negotiations over Iraq, then it has a multitude of options at its disposal to cause havoc across the Middle East...?
Read article in full at link below...
Syria, Iran Back Terrorists Against Lebanese Government

>>> FarsNewsAgency.com has this report, if you buy into it...
Iran Ready to Strive to Restore Calm in Lebanon

>>> naharnet.com...
Japan Supports Lebanon's Stability

*** Saturday, May 26, 2007 ***

>>> TorontoStar.com has this report...
Beirut defends U.S. military aid

>>> MonsterAndCritics.com reports this...
Fighting renewed in Palestinian camp in Lebanon

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon

Battle In Tripoli, Lebanon

About Video Below:
Title: Chaos In The Streets - Lebanon
Info: (Video taken Sunday, May 20, 2007 in Tripoli, Lebanon)
Lebanese tanks pounded the headquarters of a group with suspected links to al Qaeda in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli Sunday after the northern city's worst clashes in two decades killed 22 soldiers and 17 militants.

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Monday, May 21, 2007 - For a 2nd day in a row... the gun battle between the Lebanese Army and the Fatah al-Islam militants in the Palestinian, Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon continues to escalate into heavy fighting along with heavy tank and artillery fire.

In the last two days... the Lebanese Army is said to have taken its most causalities since the Lebanese 1975-1990 Civil War.

Note: Lebanese are claiming this morning that the militants they are fighting have ties to al-Qaeda and some are even saying that this is all has ties back to Syria.
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>>> NewsTimeLive.com has this Video of the Battle in Tripoli Monday morning, March 21, 2007.
>>> AP News Latest Images out of Lebanon
>>> EARTHtimes.org has this story today...
Lebanese media blames Syria for fighting
>>> AfricAsia.com has this...
International community condemns Lebanon fighting, warns of human crisis
>>> FoxNews.com is on top of the story... (This link should update)
Lebanese Troops Tighten Siege of Refugee Camp; Death Toll Nears 50

>>> 2:45pm CDT
MSNBC.com is reporting the following...
Palestinian faction: Truce reached in Lebanon
(Note: Above link should update as new info comes in)
* But hold on... at 3:03pm CDT FoxNews on cable TV reports they cannot confirm that any Truce has been made by anyone... though they do say it has been talked over some by both sides.
* MSNBC Slideshow HERE

>>> 3:50pm CDT
A Huge Explosion in Beirut, Lebanon is being reported...
YALIBNAN.com has this report...
Breaking News - Huge bomb detonated in Beirut, Lebanon

More to come throughout the day...
AubreyJ.........