Lebanon: Militants’ Morale crumbling as they start surrendering
Tripoli- According to the latest news from Nahr-el Bared refugee camp, the morale of Fatah al Islam is crumbling and their leader Shaker al Absi has threatened to kill all those that surrender.
But many fighters have surrendered or in the process of doing so. According to the latest report 22 have surrendered to Fatah mainstream organization.
Fatah mainstream is fully supportive of the army and it is expected that all those that surrender will be turned over to the justice department. Lebanon’s prime minister Fouad Siniora has promised all those that surrender a fair trial .
Fighting nevertheless continues at Nahr-el Bared amidst reports that the army has tightened its grip on the terrorists to finish them off as planned.
Lebanon is battling on several fronts to crush Islamist militants after deadly firefights broke out in a second Palestinian refugee camp and another bomb blast struck the capital.
The situation remained tense around two refugee camps at opposite ends of the country where the army has been fighting armed militias which operate outside the control of the Lebanese authorities.
In all, 108 people have been killed in 17 days of bloodshed, the deadliest internal feuding since the 1975-1990 civil war that has added to tensions in a country already in the grip of an acute political crisis.
The unrest is centered around the Nahr al-Bared camp on the shores of the Mediterranean in northern Lebanon where troops have being laying siege to Al-Qaeda inspired Sunni Muslim extremists from Fatah al-Islam.
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