The jihad against the Jews
By Bradley Burston
The jihad has a problem with the Jews.
Not just a problem with Israel. Not just the occupation. Not just the policies of the Israeli government, the actions of the Israel Defense Forces, the support by Washington and the West for Israel's embargo against Hamas-ruled Gaza.
Islamists don't care who knows it anymore. They hate the Jews. And, not to put too fine a point on it, they want the Jews dead.
Some of it one has grown to expect. "Today there is no room for he who says that we should only fight the Jews in Palestine," Osama Bin Laden's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri said after Israel's incursion into Gaza last month. "Let us strike their interests everywhere, just like they gathered against us from everywhere."
Some of it is becoming better known. In a groundbreaking article in The New York Times this week, Steven Erlanger details, among other elements of Gaza life, the tides of Jew-hate washing over the Strip with the Hamas seal of approval.
There is imam and legislator Sheik Yunus al-Astal, who, citing a Koranic verse indicating that "suffering by fire is the Jews' destiny in this world and the next," concludes that "we are sure that the holocaust is still to come upon the Jews."
There is imam and legislator Marwan M. Abu Ras, chairman of the Palestinian Scholars League and a religious authority who anchors Hamas policies in Koranic sanction, branding Jews "the brothers of apes and pigs."
This dovetails nicely with programming decisions taken by Hezbollah's Al Manar Television, which broadcast a Syrian-produced mini-series that showed a Jew killing a Christian child to obtain blood for baking Passover matza.
And then there is the case of the much anticipated, widely feared new film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, "Fitna." Officials across Europe and throughout the Muslim world have braced for the possibility of violent protests, demonstrations on the model of those sparked by Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which protesters saw as a grave insult to Islam.
But the initial reaction has been muted, despite, or because of, an emphasis on footage such as Islamic clerics voicing virulent attacks against Jews, urging that Jews be killed and even beheaded, clips of a little girl quoting Allah in the Koran terming Jews "apes and swines," and of demonstrators promising "another Holocaust" and praising Adolf Hitler.
It is worth noting that, in an initial response to the release of the film on the Internet at the end of last week, the attorney representing the umbrella group for Dutch Muslims said that at first glance, "Fitna" does not constitute an insult to their religion.
One has to wonder, why not? Are calls to kill Jews as Jews not considered an insult?
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: 'ARABS IN PALESTINE' (A.K.A. PALESTINIANS) ARE MAKING 'FRIENDS' ALL OVER
Lebanon camp war fuels anti-Palestinian sentiment
Tripoli - As the list of dead soldiers grows, anger mounts in villages of north Lebanon where the army has been locked in a deadly showdown with Islamist militants for more than two months.
Black-clad women shout angrily as men in sombre mood sit in heavy silence next to portraits of the "martyred" soldiers in impoverished villages in the remote north -- a main reservoir for the country's armed forces.
Elite unit soldier Bassam Jawhar, 29, was killed on July 14 during the ongoing battles around Nahr al-Bared refugee camp where Fatah al-Islam militants have been under army siege since May 20.
He was killed when a booby-trapped building collapsed on a patrol in Nahr al-Bared and it took the army six days to retrieve his body from under the rubble due to the intensity of the battles.
Like Jawhar, six other soldiers from Bebnin fell in combat in Nahr al-Bared in two months.
At his family home in the village, his widow Mariam, wearing a black dress and an embroidered headscarf, sits near the giant portrait of the "Shahid" (martyr in Arabic) standing proudly in full combat gear and holding a rocket-launcher.
"I delivered our baby the day he left, 50 days ago exactly," said Mariam, 23. "He only saw the baby twice."
In another room, the grandfather holds his newly-born granddaughter in his arms as an endless queue of men flock in to present their condolences.
The procession takes place in silence, but anger is boiling.
"Don't say Fatah al-Islam, it is an insult to Islam. Say 'the criminal gang of Shaker al-Abssi,'" the Islamist group's commander, said Mohammed Jawhar, a cousin of the slain soldier.
Across the dusty villages of the impoverished northern province of Akkar, the men enroll in the country's armed forces by local tradition but mostly by necessity.
"There is not a single house where there is no soldier," explained 42-year-old Zeina Sufain, who lost her 19-year-old son Firas on May 22.
"There is no work here. Even for those who go to school," she said.
The list of soldiers killed in Nahr al-Bared has painfully reached 116, including 27 servicemen on the first day of the clashes when the Islamist extremists attacked most of them in their beds.
Reports of "massacres" against off-duty soldiers by Fatah al-Islam, including harrowing stories of servicemen executed at gunpoint or slaughtered with knives seemed to have at least momentarily ended decades of good relations with the Palestinian refugee camp.
"Let them go to hell," shouted Sahar, Bassam's aunt.
"We will never let the camp be rebuilt. We will never accept that the Palestinians come back. We used to buy from their shops, but they are traitors. They harbored these criminals, they helped them," Mohammed Jawhar said.
"Some of them even married their girls to the terrorists" from Fatah al-Islam, shouted another man.
But despite their grief and great losses, Akkar villages continue to back the army and its military campaign on Nahr al-Bared.
"In Akkar we love the army," said a cousin of one of the slain soldiers in Bebnin.
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1) Lebanon camp war fuels anti-Palestinian sentiment
Tripoli - As the list of dead soldiers grows, anger mounts in villages of north Lebanon where the army has been locked in a deadly showdown with Islamist militants for more than two months.
Black-clad women shout angrily as men in sombre mood sit in heavy silence next to portraits of the "martyred" soldiers in impoverished villages in the remote north -- a main reservoir for the country's armed forces.
Elite unit soldier Bassam Jawhar, 29, was killed on July 14 during the ongoing battles around Nahr al-Bared refugee camp where Fatah al-Islam militants have been under army siege since May 20.
He was killed when a booby-trapped building collapsed on a patrol in Nahr al-Bared and it took the army six days to retrieve his body from under the rubble due to the intensity of the battles.
Like Jawhar, six other soldiers from Bebnin fell in combat in Nahr al-Bared in two months.
At his family home in the village, his widow Mariam, wearing a black dress and an embroidered headscarf, sits near the giant portrait of the "Shahid" (martyr in Arabic) standing proudly in full combat gear and holding a rocket-launcher.
"I delivered our baby the day he left, 50 days ago exactly," said Mariam, 23. "He only saw the baby twice."
In another room, the grandfather holds his newly-born granddaughter in his arms as an endless queue of men flock in to present their condolences.
The procession takes place in silence, but anger is boiling.
"Don't say Fatah al-Islam, it is an insult to Islam. Say 'the criminal gang of Shaker al-Abssi,'" the Islamist group's commander, said Mohammed Jawhar, a cousin of the slain soldier.
Across the dusty villages of the impoverished northern province of Akkar, the men enroll in the country's armed forces by local tradition but mostly by necessity.
"There is not a single house where there is no soldier," explained 42-year-old Zeina Sufain, who lost her 19-year-old son Firas on May 22.
"There is no work here. Even for those who go to school," she said.
The list of soldiers killed in Nahr al-Bared has painfully reached 116, including 27 servicemen on the first day of the clashes when the Islamist extremists attacked most of them in their beds.
Reports of "massacres" against off-duty soldiers by Fatah al-Islam, including harrowing stories of servicemen executed at gunpoint or slaughtered with knives seemed to have at least momentarily ended decades of good relations with the Palestinian refugee camp.
"Let them go to hell," shouted Sahar, Bassam's aunt.
"We will never let the camp be rebuilt. We will never accept that the Palestinians come back. We used to buy from their shops, but they are traitors. They harbored these criminals, they helped them," Mohammed Jawhar said.
"Some of them even married their girls to the terrorists" from Fatah al-Islam, shouted another man.
But despite their grief and great losses, Akkar villages continue to back the army and its military campaign on Nahr al-Bared.
"In Akkar we love the army," said a cousin of one of the slain soldiers in Bebnin.
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1) Lebanon camp war fuels anti-Palestinian sentiment
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: THE BOMBARDMENT OF FATAH AL-ISLAM JIHADISTS CONTINUES
Lebanese army close to eliminating Fatah al-Islam terrorists
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.
In some of the heaviest bombardment of Nahr al-Bared in weeks, army cannons fired shells at a rate of 8 to 10 every minute at suspected Fatah al-Islam positions inside the camp. The shelling could be heard in the nearby port city of Tripoli, witnesses said.
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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.
In some of the heaviest bombardment of Nahr al-Bared in weeks, army cannons fired shells at a rate of 8 to 10 every minute at suspected Fatah al-Islam positions inside the camp. The shelling could be heard in the nearby port city of Tripoli, witnesses said.
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DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: THE LEBANESE ARMY CONTINUES TO POUND FATAH AL-ISLAM
Lebanese Army besieges Fatah Al-Islam militias in small area
BEIRUT, July 25 (KUNA) -- Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp Wednesday witnessed fierce clashes between the Lebanese Army and Fatah Al-Islam militants who are now besieged in a 200 square-meters area.
A Lebanese military source told KUNA the Army's main aim is to force the militias to surrender, adding military operations will end "as soon as the Fatah Al-Islam phenomenon passes." He stressed the Army does not object to a solution through mediation, adding that the phenomenon will either end by military operations or mediation.
The source pointed out that 119 soldiers of the Lebanese Army were killed since the clashes began on May 20.
The Army is shelling the militias holed up in the refugee camp in the north of the country and is trying to seize the last remaining small area still controlled by the group.
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BEIRUT, July 25 (KUNA) -- Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp Wednesday witnessed fierce clashes between the Lebanese Army and Fatah Al-Islam militants who are now besieged in a 200 square-meters area.
A Lebanese military source told KUNA the Army's main aim is to force the militias to surrender, adding military operations will end "as soon as the Fatah Al-Islam phenomenon passes." He stressed the Army does not object to a solution through mediation, adding that the phenomenon will either end by military operations or mediation.
The source pointed out that 119 soldiers of the Lebanese Army were killed since the clashes began on May 20.
The Army is shelling the militias holed up in the refugee camp in the north of the country and is trying to seize the last remaining small area still controlled by the group.
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1) Lebanese Army besieges Fatah Al-Islam militias in small area
Friday, July 20, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON/SYRIA: FATAH AL ISLAMS' REAL MASTER
New charges against Syria, Fatah al-Islam’s real master
The day that the Lebanese army announces its final takeover of the terrorist headquarters in Nahr al-Bared, reports are published based on a captured leader’s testimony that claim that the group itself is a Syrian creation. Former Syrian vice-president makes similar allegations.
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Syria's masters are found in Tehran...
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The day that the Lebanese army announces its final takeover of the terrorist headquarters in Nahr al-Bared, reports are published based on a captured leader’s testimony that claim that the group itself is a Syrian creation. Former Syrian vice-president makes similar allegations.
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Syria's masters are found in Tehran...
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: ARMS SMUGGLING INTO LEBANON, IRAN & SYRIA AT THE TOP OF THE LIST OF PROVIDERS
US: Clear evidence of arms smuggling from Syria to Lebanon
Beirut - The United States said Wednesday there was clear evidence of arms smuggling across the Syrian border to terrorist groups in Lebanon, and accused Iran and Syria of playing a negative role in the country.
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As if complaints will make a difference...
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Beirut - The United States said Wednesday there was clear evidence of arms smuggling across the Syrian border to terrorist groups in Lebanon, and accused Iran and Syria of playing a negative role in the country.
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As if complaints will make a difference...
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DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: SYRIA'S INTELLIGENCE SERVICES SMUGGLED MEMBERS OF FATAH AL ISLAM INTO LEBANON
Syrian spies helped set up Fatah al-Islam in north Lebanon
Beirut - The Lebanese army will end the standoff with the Fatah Al-Islam group in a Palestinian refugee camp within the next 72 hours, a Lebanese military official told the London-based A-Sharq Al-Awsat.
The army advanced into Nahr Al-Barid camp on Saturday and has managed to confine the fighting to a very small area within the camp, not exceeding 500 square meters.
Members of Fatah Al-Islam, said to be inspired by Al-Qa’ida, have been holed up in the camp since May 20.
More than 106 Lebanese soldiers have been killed since the fighting began. Four soldiers were killed on Monday.
At least 80 Islamist fighters ( excluding those found in mass graves awaiting identification) and 20 civilians have been killed in the standoff, which has been described as the worst internal violence since the civil war, which ended in 1990.
During the army’s investigation of senior Fatah Al-Islam member Ahmad Mur’i, he admitted to liaising with Syrian intelligence services, A-Sharq Al-Awsat quoted ‘informed sources,” as saying. The Syrian security services knew about Fatah Al-Islam’s plans to attack high-profile targets in Lebanon, he said.
The Syrians helped members of the group enter Lebanon from Syria through illegal crossings, he added.
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1) Syrian spies helped set up Fatah al-Islam in north Lebanon
Beirut - The Lebanese army will end the standoff with the Fatah Al-Islam group in a Palestinian refugee camp within the next 72 hours, a Lebanese military official told the London-based A-Sharq Al-Awsat.
The army advanced into Nahr Al-Barid camp on Saturday and has managed to confine the fighting to a very small area within the camp, not exceeding 500 square meters.
Members of Fatah Al-Islam, said to be inspired by Al-Qa’ida, have been holed up in the camp since May 20.
More than 106 Lebanese soldiers have been killed since the fighting began. Four soldiers were killed on Monday.
At least 80 Islamist fighters ( excluding those found in mass graves awaiting identification) and 20 civilians have been killed in the standoff, which has been described as the worst internal violence since the civil war, which ended in 1990.
During the army’s investigation of senior Fatah Al-Islam member Ahmad Mur’i, he admitted to liaising with Syrian intelligence services, A-Sharq Al-Awsat quoted ‘informed sources,” as saying. The Syrian security services knew about Fatah Al-Islam’s plans to attack high-profile targets in Lebanon, he said.
The Syrians helped members of the group enter Lebanon from Syria through illegal crossings, he added.
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1) Syrian spies helped set up Fatah al-Islam in north Lebanon
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: FATAL AL ISLAM LINKED TO ASSAD VIA RELATIVE
Report links Lebanon's Fatah al-Islam to an Assad relative
Beirut - An alleged leader of the Fatah al-Islam terrorist network has testified to interrogators that the group is linked to the head of Syria's intelligence apparatus Maj. Gen. Assef Shawkat, the brother-in-law of President Bashar Assad.
Ahmed Merie, a Lebanese citizen arrested late in May at a Beirut hotel, also testified to military examining magistrate Rashid Mezher that four members of Fatah al-Islam gunned down legislator Pierre Gemayel on Nov. 21 in east Beirut's suburb of Jdaideh, according to the daily al-Moustaqbal.
Another pan Arab daily, al-Sharq al-Awsat, published a similar report.
The report said Merie testified to Mezher during interrogation that he was the "liaison officer" between Fatah al-Islam's leader Shaker Abssi and Shawkat .
Shawkat, according to Merie's alleged testimony, provided Fatah al-Islam with a "highly qualified explosives expert who trained members of the group on bomb making."
Shawkat ( L) also provided the group with "significant support," the nature of which was not reported.
Merie was also quoted as telling Mezher that he worked out the explosives expert's safe exit from the Nahr al-Bared camp in north Lebanon and back to Syria before the clashes broke out between the terrorists and the Lebanese Army on May 20.
The newspaper report quoted unidentified judicial sources as saying Merie identified four members of the Fatah al-Islam network who carried out the Gemayel murder.
The sources, however, refused to disclose names of the suspects.
Nevertheless, the newspaper said the so-called Majd el-Dine Abboud, who also goes by the code name of Abu Yezen, was one of the suspects in the Gemayel murder. He was killed in confrontations with the Lebanese Army.
It couldn't be determined whether Abboud was a Syrian or Palestinian citizen, the report noted.
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1) Report links Lebanon's Fatah al-Islam to an Assad relative
Beirut - An alleged leader of the Fatah al-Islam terrorist network has testified to interrogators that the group is linked to the head of Syria's intelligence apparatus Maj. Gen. Assef Shawkat, the brother-in-law of President Bashar Assad.
Ahmed Merie, a Lebanese citizen arrested late in May at a Beirut hotel, also testified to military examining magistrate Rashid Mezher that four members of Fatah al-Islam gunned down legislator Pierre Gemayel on Nov. 21 in east Beirut's suburb of Jdaideh, according to the daily al-Moustaqbal.
Another pan Arab daily, al-Sharq al-Awsat, published a similar report.
The report said Merie testified to Mezher during interrogation that he was the "liaison officer" between Fatah al-Islam's leader Shaker Abssi and Shawkat .
Shawkat, according to Merie's alleged testimony, provided Fatah al-Islam with a "highly qualified explosives expert who trained members of the group on bomb making."
Shawkat ( L) also provided the group with "significant support," the nature of which was not reported.
Merie was also quoted as telling Mezher that he worked out the explosives expert's safe exit from the Nahr al-Bared camp in north Lebanon and back to Syria before the clashes broke out between the terrorists and the Lebanese Army on May 20.
The newspaper report quoted unidentified judicial sources as saying Merie identified four members of the Fatah al-Islam network who carried out the Gemayel murder.
The sources, however, refused to disclose names of the suspects.
Nevertheless, the newspaper said the so-called Majd el-Dine Abboud, who also goes by the code name of Abu Yezen, was one of the suspects in the Gemayel murder. He was killed in confrontations with the Lebanese Army.
It couldn't be determined whether Abboud was a Syrian or Palestinian citizen, the report noted.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Report links Lebanon's Fatah al-Islam to an Assad relative
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - SPAIN/LEBANON: SPANISH INTELLIGENCE LAYS BLAME FOR UNIFIL ATTACK ON 3 SEPARATE JIHADIST GROUPS - ALL LINKED TO AL QUEDA
Spain suspects three Islamist groups may have waged attack on UNIFIL troops
Three Al-Qaeda-linked radical Islamic groups may have carried out last month's deadly attack on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, says a Spanish intelligence report quoted in a newspaper Monday.
In its report to the government, the CNI said the Fatah al-Islam, Jund al-Sham and Usbat al-Ansar groups were all linked to Al-Qaeda, the center-left daily El Pais reported.
The report did not support the theory Hizbullah had been involved, El Pais added.
Fatah al-Islam members have since May 20 been under daily siege from the Lebanese army, which is attempting to dislodge them from the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp.
The two other groups named in the report were, it said, "much less powerful," but had bases in the Ain el Hilweh refugee camp in South Lebanon.
Usbat al-Ansar has some 100 to 200 activists, according to an El Pais estimate.
It features on a US State Department list of banned terrorist organizations because of its alleged links with Al-Qaeda's Iraq branch.
Usbat al-Ansar is also believed to have recently incorporated another group, Jund al-Sham, into its ranks.
"The target of the attack was to dampen the pressure on the Nahr al-Bared camp by obliging the Lebanese army to switch its troops southwards and attack UN forces, dubbed 'occupying forces' in October by [Al-Qaeda leader] Osama Bin Laden's lieutenant [Ayman] al-Zawahiri," El Pais wrote.
Spanish Defence Minister Jose Antonio Alonso last week attributed the June 24 attack on "a terrorist cell comprising possibly foreign individuals, that is, non-Lebanese."
Six soldiers, part of the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) serving in Lebanon, were killed in the attack when a car bomb struck their personnel carrier as they patrolled a main road between two towns near the Israeli border.
Three of the victims in the first deadly attack on the UN's peacekeeping force in Lebanon since last year's war with Israel were Spaniards with the other three Colombians serving with Spanish forces in UNIFIL.
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1) Spain suspects three Islamist groups may have waged attack on UNIFIL troops
Three Al-Qaeda-linked radical Islamic groups may have carried out last month's deadly attack on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, says a Spanish intelligence report quoted in a newspaper Monday.
In its report to the government, the CNI said the Fatah al-Islam, Jund al-Sham and Usbat al-Ansar groups were all linked to Al-Qaeda, the center-left daily El Pais reported.
The report did not support the theory Hizbullah had been involved, El Pais added.
Fatah al-Islam members have since May 20 been under daily siege from the Lebanese army, which is attempting to dislodge them from the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp.
The two other groups named in the report were, it said, "much less powerful," but had bases in the Ain el Hilweh refugee camp in South Lebanon.
Usbat al-Ansar has some 100 to 200 activists, according to an El Pais estimate.
It features on a US State Department list of banned terrorist organizations because of its alleged links with Al-Qaeda's Iraq branch.
Usbat al-Ansar is also believed to have recently incorporated another group, Jund al-Sham, into its ranks.
"The target of the attack was to dampen the pressure on the Nahr al-Bared camp by obliging the Lebanese army to switch its troops southwards and attack UN forces, dubbed 'occupying forces' in October by [Al-Qaeda leader] Osama Bin Laden's lieutenant [Ayman] al-Zawahiri," El Pais wrote.
Spanish Defence Minister Jose Antonio Alonso last week attributed the June 24 attack on "a terrorist cell comprising possibly foreign individuals, that is, non-Lebanese."
Six soldiers, part of the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) serving in Lebanon, were killed in the attack when a car bomb struck their personnel carrier as they patrolled a main road between two towns near the Israeli border.
Three of the victims in the first deadly attack on the UN's peacekeeping force in Lebanon since last year's war with Israel were Spaniards with the other three Colombians serving with Spanish forces in UNIFIL.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Spain suspects three Islamist groups may have waged attack on UNIFIL troops
Monday, July 09, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - ISRAEL/HOLY LAND: HAMAS IS REALLY MISUNDERSTOOD
Hamas: A Misunderstood Phenomenon
By: Dr. Hani Ruishi
Recently, Hamas has been subjected to a relentless campaign and unjust attack from many governments and organizations, especially after its control over Gaza Strip. The target of this campaign seemed to aim at hurting Hamas and thus used a vulgar and dishonest conclusions. The motto, which Hamas raised in its electoral campaign "Islam is the solution" had its share of this attack. Although many of these parts are doing this on their interests and Ingratiate to the United States and its allies, I shall give pardon this fact, and I shall assume all those are of good faith, explaining to them what Hamas really wants contrary to the stereotyped image, I will look to be very brief, which fits the circumstances of an article.
Hamas follows balanced Islam, whish is a religion that has unique legislations, these legislations cover all aspects of life including worship, morality and transactions. The transactions include the regulatory aspects of civil and family provisions and the provisions of the judiciary, the system of governance, and rules and how to choose the head of state and form a government, and the relationships between individuals and their rights, and the relations with other countries in war and peace, and the organization of financial relations, and the relationship between the state and individuals. The transactions involve determining punitive relationship of the individual to the state on one hand, and the acts prohibited "crimes and the amount of each penalty". As those who claim Islam is a religion which has nothing to do with the state, Hamas offers him the true nature of Islam through many writings.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Hamas: A Misunderstood Phenomenon
By: Dr. Hani Ruishi
Recently, Hamas has been subjected to a relentless campaign and unjust attack from many governments and organizations, especially after its control over Gaza Strip. The target of this campaign seemed to aim at hurting Hamas and thus used a vulgar and dishonest conclusions. The motto, which Hamas raised in its electoral campaign "Islam is the solution" had its share of this attack. Although many of these parts are doing this on their interests and Ingratiate to the United States and its allies, I shall give pardon this fact, and I shall assume all those are of good faith, explaining to them what Hamas really wants contrary to the stereotyped image, I will look to be very brief, which fits the circumstances of an article.
Hamas follows balanced Islam, whish is a religion that has unique legislations, these legislations cover all aspects of life including worship, morality and transactions. The transactions include the regulatory aspects of civil and family provisions and the provisions of the judiciary, the system of governance, and rules and how to choose the head of state and form a government, and the relationships between individuals and their rights, and the relations with other countries in war and peace, and the organization of financial relations, and the relationship between the state and individuals. The transactions involve determining punitive relationship of the individual to the state on one hand, and the acts prohibited "crimes and the amount of each penalty". As those who claim Islam is a religion which has nothing to do with the state, Hamas offers him the true nature of Islam through many writings.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Hamas: A Misunderstood Phenomenon
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: FATAH AL ISLAM IS BEING POUNDED BY LEBANESE ARTILLERY
Lebanese troops bombard Islamists
Army pounds positions of Fatah al-Islam fighters in Nahr al-Bared camp with artillery.
By Nicholas Tohme - NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon
Lebanese troops on Monday pounded Islamist positions in a Palestinian camp where about 400 refugees have been stranded with dwindling water and food supplies.
The army targeted positions of Fatah al-Islam fighters in the seafront Nahr al-Bared refugee camp of northern Lebanon where the two sides have been locked in battle since May 20.
"The soldiers are retaliating with artillery to the (Islamist) snipers who have been entrenched in buildings," a Lebanese army officer said. Sporadic fire was also heard overnight.
Sultan Abul Aynayn, the Lebanon chief of the mainstream Palestinian faction Fatah, said that about 400 Palestinian civilians remain in Nahr al-Bared, which had a population of 31,000 before the battles began.
"The civilians are living on old stocks, and lack water and food," he warned.
Abul Aynayn said the 400 remaining refugees were gathered in an area under the control of his Fatah faction which has been preventing the Fatah al-Islam splinter group from entering the protected zone.
He estimated that Fatah al-Islam had about 80 militants left in Nahr al-Bared, compared to a force of 250 men of different Arab nationalities before the clashes broke out.
"The others have either been killed, wounded, taken prisoner or just fled from the camp," he said.
Abul Aynayn said about 55 members of other Palestinian factions, including the Islamist movement Hamas, a Fatah rival, were deployed inside the camp.
Fighting broke out at the refugee camp on May 20 when Islamists launched a series of attacks against soldiers, killing 27 of them around the camp and in Tripoli, the main city in northern Lebanon.
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1) Lebanese troops bombard Islamists
Army pounds positions of Fatah al-Islam fighters in Nahr al-Bared camp with artillery.
By Nicholas Tohme - NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon
Lebanese troops on Monday pounded Islamist positions in a Palestinian camp where about 400 refugees have been stranded with dwindling water and food supplies.
The army targeted positions of Fatah al-Islam fighters in the seafront Nahr al-Bared refugee camp of northern Lebanon where the two sides have been locked in battle since May 20.
"The soldiers are retaliating with artillery to the (Islamist) snipers who have been entrenched in buildings," a Lebanese army officer said. Sporadic fire was also heard overnight.
Sultan Abul Aynayn, the Lebanon chief of the mainstream Palestinian faction Fatah, said that about 400 Palestinian civilians remain in Nahr al-Bared, which had a population of 31,000 before the battles began.
"The civilians are living on old stocks, and lack water and food," he warned.
Abul Aynayn said the 400 remaining refugees were gathered in an area under the control of his Fatah faction which has been preventing the Fatah al-Islam splinter group from entering the protected zone.
He estimated that Fatah al-Islam had about 80 militants left in Nahr al-Bared, compared to a force of 250 men of different Arab nationalities before the clashes broke out.
"The others have either been killed, wounded, taken prisoner or just fled from the camp," he said.
Abul Aynayn said about 55 members of other Palestinian factions, including the Islamist movement Hamas, a Fatah rival, were deployed inside the camp.
Fighting broke out at the refugee camp on May 20 when Islamists launched a series of attacks against soldiers, killing 27 of them around the camp and in Tripoli, the main city in northern Lebanon.
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1) Lebanese troops bombard Islamists
Sunday, July 08, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: A VIOLENT CRISIS IN LEBANON AFTER JULY 15?!?
Possible Eruption of Violent Crisis in Lebanon After July 15
In the past few days, Arab and Iranian media reports have pointed to the possibility that Lebanon's current political crisis may become a violent conflict after July 15, 2007.
It should be noted that certain international events concerning Lebanon and Syria are expected in mid-July, specifically:
1. The U.N. Security Council session scheduled for July 16, 2007, which is to discuss a report by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the progress in the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701. This discussion will be devoted in part to the report submitted by a delegation sent by Ki-Moon to the Syria-Lebanon border to assess border supervision. According to the London daily Al-Hayat, the delegation's recommendations included the stationing of international experts in border control to aid Lebanon's security apparatuses in monitoring the Syria-Lebanon border. [1]
2. Between July 15 and 17, 2007, the submission of another report to the U.N. Security Council, by the head of the International Investigation Commission into the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Al-Hariri, Serge Brammertz.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Possible Eruption of Violent Crisis in Lebanon After July 15
In the past few days, Arab and Iranian media reports have pointed to the possibility that Lebanon's current political crisis may become a violent conflict after July 15, 2007.
It should be noted that certain international events concerning Lebanon and Syria are expected in mid-July, specifically:
1. The U.N. Security Council session scheduled for July 16, 2007, which is to discuss a report by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the progress in the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701. This discussion will be devoted in part to the report submitted by a delegation sent by Ki-Moon to the Syria-Lebanon border to assess border supervision. According to the London daily Al-Hayat, the delegation's recommendations included the stationing of international experts in border control to aid Lebanon's security apparatuses in monitoring the Syria-Lebanon border. [1]
2. Between July 15 and 17, 2007, the submission of another report to the U.N. Security Council, by the head of the International Investigation Commission into the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Al-Hariri, Serge Brammertz.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Possible Eruption of Violent Crisis in Lebanon After July 15
Saturday, July 07, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: TODAY'S LEBANON IS A JIHADIST MAGNET
Paralyzed Lebanon lures Islamist militants
BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 7 Political paralysis in Lebanon in the aftermath of last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah appears to be attracting Islamic militants.
Hundreds of people have been killed in recent weeks in fighting between government forces and militants based in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli. Major Gen. Achraf Rifi, head of the Internal Security Forces, told the New York Times that the group includes fighters from Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen, all veterans of the Iraqi insurgency.
The leader, Shakir al-Abssi, was an ally of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, who died in a U.S. air strike last year. Abssi is under a death sentence in Jordan for his part in the assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Amman.
"One reason we attacked Abssi was to get a message to those people that you don't have to come to Lebanon after your mission in Iraq," Rifi said.
Other groups appear to be active in the country, with increasing numbers of car bombs.
"We have no sleeper cells in Lebanon," a Lebanese Army official who did not want his name used told the Times. "They are all waking up."
Pertinent Links:
1) Paralyzed Lebanon lures Islamist militants
BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 7 Political paralysis in Lebanon in the aftermath of last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah appears to be attracting Islamic militants.
Hundreds of people have been killed in recent weeks in fighting between government forces and militants based in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli. Major Gen. Achraf Rifi, head of the Internal Security Forces, told the New York Times that the group includes fighters from Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen, all veterans of the Iraqi insurgency.
The leader, Shakir al-Abssi, was an ally of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, who died in a U.S. air strike last year. Abssi is under a death sentence in Jordan for his part in the assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Amman.
"One reason we attacked Abssi was to get a message to those people that you don't have to come to Lebanon after your mission in Iraq," Rifi said.
Other groups appear to be active in the country, with increasing numbers of car bombs.
"We have no sleeper cells in Lebanon," a Lebanese Army official who did not want his name used told the Times. "They are all waking up."
Pertinent Links:
1) Paralyzed Lebanon lures Islamist militants
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: WHERE ISN'T THERE A FRONTLINE OF JIHAD?!? COME ON, THE MOSLEM JIHAD RAGES EVERYWHERE AT ALL TIMES ! ! !
Lebanon now a frontline for radical Islamists
Published Date: June 26, 2007 By Michel Moutot
A call by Al-Qaeda number two Ayman Al-Zawahiri to flood Lebanon with foreign Islamic extremists appears to have been heard, according to analysts monitoring jihadist groups here. Last year during the 34-day war between Israel and the Shiite Hezbollah, Osama bin Laden's Egyptian deputy exhorted Muslims to "support the mujahedeen" and to "transfer the jihad to the borders of Palestine with the aid of Allah." Since 2003 anti-American insurgents have been coming and going between Lebanon and Iraq, Lebanese and foreign analysts say. They use Lebanon as a base for rest and recuperation and to train.
Last year after the July-August war a previously unknown organization calling itself Fatah Al-Islam announced its presence in the Nahr Al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Grouping radical Lebanese Sunni Muslims, veterans of the Iraq insurgency and foreign extremists, it espoused views similar to those of Al-Qaeda. Since May 20 this year, Fatah al-Islam fighters have been under siege by the Lebanese army at the refugee camp in a continuing standoff that has so far killed at least 157 people, including 80 soldiers and more than 55 Islamists.
The Lebanese authorities and foreign analysts based in Beirut say the Nahr Al-Bared siege is just the tip of the iceberg. "Al-Qaeda is present in Lebanon," Defense Minister Elias Murr has said. "There are terrorist cells ready to strike and there are threats of new attacks." Overnight on Saturday, security forces raided the apartment of an Islamist in the northern port city of Tripoli, sparking a firefight with Fatah Al-Islam that resulted in the deaths of 10 people including six Islamists.
"Nahr Al-Bared could make things worse," said one Western diplomat in Beirut who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity. "Ninety percent of Lebanese support their army, but an active minority will be susceptible to radical propaganda. On the Internet they call the Christian head of state the 'crusader general', and the impact of pictures of US planes with cargoes of weapons at Beirut airport has been devastating."
Washington supplied military equipment to Lebanon to help the army in its battle against the Islamists holed up inside Nahr Al-Bared. A rumour is also circulating among jihadist Internet forums that ships from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon patrolling the coast after last year's war have fired on Nahr Al-Bared. "It's false, of course," said the diplomat. "But if enough people believe it that doesn't matter - the effect is the same."
In Tripoli a man so close to local Sunni radicals that he did not want to be identified told AFP that among the militants in Nahr Al-Bared are some who fought against the army in Denniyeh. In December 1999 Sunni fighters battled the army in that mountainous region east of Tripoli. Thirty people were killed, among them 11 soldiers and 15 militants. "I know that Fatah Al-Islam has cells in Tripoli. They are keeping a low profile so they are not discovered. They are being monitored, but they are still at liberty. What are they planning exactly?" he said.
Retired army general Whebe Katisha called the situation very worrying. "From now on the military will try to prevent the militants from basing themselves inside secure areas such as some Palestinian refugee camps. Drain the water to expose the fish. There may be isolated cells inside." By longstanding convention, the Lebanese army does not enter the 12 official Palestinian refugee camps in the country, leaving interior security to Palestinian factions.
Commentator Elias Hanna, another retired general, told AFP that "the army gave a deterrent example in Nahr Al-Bared for other groups" of extremists. "It was a good base, close to the Syrian border, easy to manipulate for Damascus intelligence. It's not going to be so easy in other camps, where Palestine Liberation Organization influence is stronger." According to the Western diplomat, "Lebanon is no longer a base in the rear - it is the front line. The seed has been planted. "Nahr Al-Bared will radicalize some groups and enable their plans to take root. And if the Fatah al-Islam leaders never come out they will become legends, new Zarqawis," he said, referring to Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the former head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq who was killed by a US air strike last year.
Pertinent Links:
1) Lebanon now a frontline for radical Islamists
Published Date: June 26, 2007 By Michel Moutot
A call by Al-Qaeda number two Ayman Al-Zawahiri to flood Lebanon with foreign Islamic extremists appears to have been heard, according to analysts monitoring jihadist groups here. Last year during the 34-day war between Israel and the Shiite Hezbollah, Osama bin Laden's Egyptian deputy exhorted Muslims to "support the mujahedeen" and to "transfer the jihad to the borders of Palestine with the aid of Allah." Since 2003 anti-American insurgents have been coming and going between Lebanon and Iraq, Lebanese and foreign analysts say. They use Lebanon as a base for rest and recuperation and to train.
Last year after the July-August war a previously unknown organization calling itself Fatah Al-Islam announced its presence in the Nahr Al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Grouping radical Lebanese Sunni Muslims, veterans of the Iraq insurgency and foreign extremists, it espoused views similar to those of Al-Qaeda. Since May 20 this year, Fatah al-Islam fighters have been under siege by the Lebanese army at the refugee camp in a continuing standoff that has so far killed at least 157 people, including 80 soldiers and more than 55 Islamists.
The Lebanese authorities and foreign analysts based in Beirut say the Nahr Al-Bared siege is just the tip of the iceberg. "Al-Qaeda is present in Lebanon," Defense Minister Elias Murr has said. "There are terrorist cells ready to strike and there are threats of new attacks." Overnight on Saturday, security forces raided the apartment of an Islamist in the northern port city of Tripoli, sparking a firefight with Fatah Al-Islam that resulted in the deaths of 10 people including six Islamists.
"Nahr Al-Bared could make things worse," said one Western diplomat in Beirut who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity. "Ninety percent of Lebanese support their army, but an active minority will be susceptible to radical propaganda. On the Internet they call the Christian head of state the 'crusader general', and the impact of pictures of US planes with cargoes of weapons at Beirut airport has been devastating."
Washington supplied military equipment to Lebanon to help the army in its battle against the Islamists holed up inside Nahr Al-Bared. A rumour is also circulating among jihadist Internet forums that ships from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon patrolling the coast after last year's war have fired on Nahr Al-Bared. "It's false, of course," said the diplomat. "But if enough people believe it that doesn't matter - the effect is the same."
In Tripoli a man so close to local Sunni radicals that he did not want to be identified told AFP that among the militants in Nahr Al-Bared are some who fought against the army in Denniyeh. In December 1999 Sunni fighters battled the army in that mountainous region east of Tripoli. Thirty people were killed, among them 11 soldiers and 15 militants. "I know that Fatah Al-Islam has cells in Tripoli. They are keeping a low profile so they are not discovered. They are being monitored, but they are still at liberty. What are they planning exactly?" he said.
Retired army general Whebe Katisha called the situation very worrying. "From now on the military will try to prevent the militants from basing themselves inside secure areas such as some Palestinian refugee camps. Drain the water to expose the fish. There may be isolated cells inside." By longstanding convention, the Lebanese army does not enter the 12 official Palestinian refugee camps in the country, leaving interior security to Palestinian factions.
Commentator Elias Hanna, another retired general, told AFP that "the army gave a deterrent example in Nahr Al-Bared for other groups" of extremists. "It was a good base, close to the Syrian border, easy to manipulate for Damascus intelligence. It's not going to be so easy in other camps, where Palestine Liberation Organization influence is stronger." According to the Western diplomat, "Lebanon is no longer a base in the rear - it is the front line. The seed has been planted. "Nahr Al-Bared will radicalize some groups and enable their plans to take root. And if the Fatah al-Islam leaders never come out they will become legends, new Zarqawis," he said, referring to Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the former head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq who was killed by a US air strike last year.
Pertinent Links:
1) Lebanon now a frontline for radical Islamists
Thursday, June 21, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: FATAH AL-ISLAM FINISHED, ALL THAT IS LEFT IS MOPPING UP
Lebanon: Fatah al-Islam defeated, military operation is over
By The Associated Press
Lebanon's defense minister said Thursday that Islamic militants holed up in a north Lebanon refugee camp have been defeated and that the month-long military operation is over, except for mopping up.
"The Lebanese army has crushed those terrorists," Defense Minister Elias Murr said in a television interview late Thursday.
"I can notify the Lebanese that the military operation is over," he said. What is happening now is some cleanup ... and dismantling some mines."
"The Lebanese army has destroyed all Fatah al-Islam positions," Murr declared on the private Lebanese Broadcasting Television.
However, a few hours before he spoke sporadic battles continued in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp outside the northern port city of Tripoli.
Murr said the camp would remain a theater of operations and under siege "until they [remaining fighters] surrender."
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1) Lebanon: Fatah al-Islam defeated, military operation is over
By The Associated Press
Lebanon's defense minister said Thursday that Islamic militants holed up in a north Lebanon refugee camp have been defeated and that the month-long military operation is over, except for mopping up.
"The Lebanese army has crushed those terrorists," Defense Minister Elias Murr said in a television interview late Thursday.
"I can notify the Lebanese that the military operation is over," he said. What is happening now is some cleanup ... and dismantling some mines."
"The Lebanese army has destroyed all Fatah al-Islam positions," Murr declared on the private Lebanese Broadcasting Television.
However, a few hours before he spoke sporadic battles continued in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp outside the northern port city of Tripoli.
Murr said the camp would remain a theater of operations and under siege "until they [remaining fighters] surrender."
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Pertinent Links:
1) Lebanon: Fatah al-Islam defeated, military operation is over
Monday, June 11, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM: DID SAUDI ARABIA FUND AL-ABSI & FATAH AL ISLAM IN ORDER TO CREATE A COUNTERWEIGHT HIZ B'ALLAH ?!?
In the name of Islam?
By Danny Rubinstein
The bloody incidents in the Nahr al-Barad refugee camp in Lebanon have implications for the Palestinians, and therefore, Israel as well. A bank in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli was robbed three weeks ago. The robbers fled to the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Barad, barricading themselves in a house. The police pursued them and the incident spiraled into heavy exchanges of fire, which ended in numerous casualties and massive destruction. Some inhabitants fled the camp.
The robbers were members of an extremist Muslim group, Fatah al-Islam (Victory of Islam), which is linked to Al-Qaida and other such organizations operating in Lebanon. Though the group is headed by a Palestinian, Shaker al-Absi, most of its 300-500 members are from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Algeria, Lebanon and other Arab countries. Al-Absi was born in 1955 in a refugee camp in Jericho to a family from the village of Duweima (now Moshav Amatzia in the Lachish Region). He grew up in the Al Wahdat Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, studied in Libya and became famous when he received a pilot license. After the 1982 Lebanon War he joined the rebels in Fatah (the Abu Mussa group, which eventually became known as Fatah Intifada and was supported by the Syrian regime). In 2000, al-Absi was arrested by the Syrians and spent two years in prison on charges of attempting to carry out terror attacks from the Golan Heights. After serving time, he went to Jordan and Iraq and participated in terrorist activities. In Jordan he was sentenced, in absentia, to death for his part in the murder of American diplomat Laurence Foley in 2002, and in Iraq he operated alongside Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed by the Americans in 2006.
According to a Palestinian journalist from East Jerusalem, there were a number of indications that al-Absi and his people, who had settled into the camp in Lebanon, received financial aid from Saudi elements. The idea was to develop a fanatical Sunni Muslim force in Lebanon that would effectively act as a counterweight to the Shi'ite Hezbollah zealots.
Acquaintances of the journalist in Tripoli told him that Saudi Arabia has stopped transferring funds to this group, and its members robbed the bank through which they had received the money in the past. The reaction to the bloodshed in northern Lebanon, which left in its wake 130 dead, scores wounded and heavy damage, was wall-to-wall condemnation: The government and army fought the militants; some in the government have accused Syria of helping the perpetrators in order to distract attention from efforts to establish an international court to try suspects in the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri; Hezbollah has distanced itself from them but has demanded that the army be prohibited from entering the camp. Fear is growing among the Palestinians; once again they will be blamed for all of the troubles in Lebanon.
Hamas spokesmen have hastened to declare that they have no connection to al-Absi and his supporters. A Hamas representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, has condemned them, and Khaled Meshal called Prime Minister Fouad Siniora from Damascus and offered to help. The Palestine Liberation Organization representative in Lebanon, Abbas Zaki (formerly a member of the Palestinian parliament), also came out against the terrorists.
Nevertheless, it emerged last week that the group is holding up, and all because of the weak and divided Lebanese government. It is not a coincidence that the Muslim extremists have situated themselves in this refugee camp and in other camps in Lebanon where there is no government presence and no law and order.
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Pertinent Links:
1) In the name of Islam?
By Danny Rubinstein
The bloody incidents in the Nahr al-Barad refugee camp in Lebanon have implications for the Palestinians, and therefore, Israel as well. A bank in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli was robbed three weeks ago. The robbers fled to the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Barad, barricading themselves in a house. The police pursued them and the incident spiraled into heavy exchanges of fire, which ended in numerous casualties and massive destruction. Some inhabitants fled the camp.
The robbers were members of an extremist Muslim group, Fatah al-Islam (Victory of Islam), which is linked to Al-Qaida and other such organizations operating in Lebanon. Though the group is headed by a Palestinian, Shaker al-Absi, most of its 300-500 members are from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Algeria, Lebanon and other Arab countries. Al-Absi was born in 1955 in a refugee camp in Jericho to a family from the village of Duweima (now Moshav Amatzia in the Lachish Region). He grew up in the Al Wahdat Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, studied in Libya and became famous when he received a pilot license. After the 1982 Lebanon War he joined the rebels in Fatah (the Abu Mussa group, which eventually became known as Fatah Intifada and was supported by the Syrian regime). In 2000, al-Absi was arrested by the Syrians and spent two years in prison on charges of attempting to carry out terror attacks from the Golan Heights. After serving time, he went to Jordan and Iraq and participated in terrorist activities. In Jordan he was sentenced, in absentia, to death for his part in the murder of American diplomat Laurence Foley in 2002, and in Iraq he operated alongside Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed by the Americans in 2006.
According to a Palestinian journalist from East Jerusalem, there were a number of indications that al-Absi and his people, who had settled into the camp in Lebanon, received financial aid from Saudi elements. The idea was to develop a fanatical Sunni Muslim force in Lebanon that would effectively act as a counterweight to the Shi'ite Hezbollah zealots.
Acquaintances of the journalist in Tripoli told him that Saudi Arabia has stopped transferring funds to this group, and its members robbed the bank through which they had received the money in the past. The reaction to the bloodshed in northern Lebanon, which left in its wake 130 dead, scores wounded and heavy damage, was wall-to-wall condemnation: The government and army fought the militants; some in the government have accused Syria of helping the perpetrators in order to distract attention from efforts to establish an international court to try suspects in the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri; Hezbollah has distanced itself from them but has demanded that the army be prohibited from entering the camp. Fear is growing among the Palestinians; once again they will be blamed for all of the troubles in Lebanon.
Hamas spokesmen have hastened to declare that they have no connection to al-Absi and his supporters. A Hamas representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, has condemned them, and Khaled Meshal called Prime Minister Fouad Siniora from Damascus and offered to help. The Palestine Liberation Organization representative in Lebanon, Abbas Zaki (formerly a member of the Palestinian parliament), also came out against the terrorists.
Nevertheless, it emerged last week that the group is holding up, and all because of the weak and divided Lebanese government. It is not a coincidence that the Muslim extremists have situated themselves in this refugee camp and in other camps in Lebanon where there is no government presence and no law and order.
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Pertinent Links:
1) In the name of Islam?
Saturday, June 09, 2007
DAR AL ISLAM: WHO IS BEHIND FATAH AL ISLAM?!?
Who Is Behind Fath Al-Islam?
By: H. Varulkar
Introduction
On May 20, 2007, militants from the Fath Al-Islam organization attacked Lebanese Army outposts at the Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Since then, the violence has spread into other areas, including the city of Tripoli, and dozens of Lebanese soldiers, civilians, and Fath Al-Islam militants have been killed.
The Lebanese government and the March 14 forces are accusing Syria of training and arming the Fath Al-Islam militants, and of bringing them into Lebanon. They are claiming that Syria ordered the organization to launch a large-scale attack on the Lebanese army at this point in time so as to prevent the U.N. Security Council from approving the establishment of an international tribunal for the Al-Hariri assassination.
Furthermore, the March 14 Forces link Fath Al-Islam's attack on the Lebanese army to the threats made recently by Syrian President Bashar Assad, which were reported by numerous media outlets. According to the reports, Assad threatened, in a conversation with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, to set fire to the region "from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean"; another time, he threatened that civil war would break out in Lebanon if the tribunal was approved.
The Lebanese opposition, headed by Hizbullah, accused the Lebanese government, primarily the Sunni Al-Mustaqbal faction led by Sa'd Al-Hariri, of being behind Fath Al-Islam and of funding it.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Who is behind Fath Al-Islam?
By: H. Varulkar
Introduction
On May 20, 2007, militants from the Fath Al-Islam organization attacked Lebanese Army outposts at the Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Since then, the violence has spread into other areas, including the city of Tripoli, and dozens of Lebanese soldiers, civilians, and Fath Al-Islam militants have been killed.
The Lebanese government and the March 14 forces are accusing Syria of training and arming the Fath Al-Islam militants, and of bringing them into Lebanon. They are claiming that Syria ordered the organization to launch a large-scale attack on the Lebanese army at this point in time so as to prevent the U.N. Security Council from approving the establishment of an international tribunal for the Al-Hariri assassination.
Furthermore, the March 14 Forces link Fath Al-Islam's attack on the Lebanese army to the threats made recently by Syrian President Bashar Assad, which were reported by numerous media outlets. According to the reports, Assad threatened, in a conversation with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, to set fire to the region "from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean"; another time, he threatened that civil war would break out in Lebanon if the tribunal was approved.
The Lebanese opposition, headed by Hizbullah, accused the Lebanese government, primarily the Sunni Al-Mustaqbal faction led by Sa'd Al-Hariri, of being behind Fath Al-Islam and of funding it.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Who is behind Fath Al-Islam?
Friday, June 08, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: FATAH AL ISLAM HAS PLANS TO ATTACK UNIFIL
Fatah al-Islam plans to attack UNIFIL
A Lebanese legal source said Friday that members of the Fatah al-Islam militia, in the midst of skirmishes with the Lebanese army, had plans to attack UNIFIL forces operating in southern Lebanon.
"During investigations several militia members admitted that they had planned to attack UN forces in the south of Lebanon and carry out military actions against them," he said.
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1) Fatah al-Islam plans to attack UNIFIL
A Lebanese legal source said Friday that members of the Fatah al-Islam militia, in the midst of skirmishes with the Lebanese army, had plans to attack UNIFIL forces operating in southern Lebanon.
"During investigations several militia members admitted that they had planned to attack UN forces in the south of Lebanon and carry out military actions against them," he said.
Pertinent Links:
1) Fatah al-Islam plans to attack UNIFIL
Thursday, June 07, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: FATAH AL ISLAM IS ON ITS LAST LEG
End to Nahr Al-Bared battles imminent -- PLO official
RAMALLAH, June 7 (KUNA) -- The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) representative in Lebanon Abbas Zaki has expected and end soon to the battles by the Lebanese military against the Fatah Al-Islam militants in the Palestinian camp of Naher Al-Bared north of Lebanon.
"The Nahr Al-Bared battle provoked by the Shaker Al-Absi's gang (Fatah Al-Islam) is coming to an end," Zaki told reporters in Ramalaah on Thursday. He urged the Fatah Al-Islam elements to give in to the Lebanese judiciary to receive a just trial.
He added that the remaining members of the group asked to be allowed to leave the camp or to be abandoned inside, but "neither of the two requests is acceptable since they have become rotten goods that won't be allowed to be left after all the crimes they committed." The PLO official noted that Fatah Al-Islam was trying to shift the battle from the North Lebanese camp to the southern refugee camp of Ain Al-Helwa in a bid to undermine the Palestinian-Lebanese relations but they failed after killing two people from Fatah and other two from the Lebanese military "the national army that supports resistance and that will remain a symbol of Lebanon's unity and security." He underlined the fact that Palestinians in Lebanon were not "a rifle for hire" and that the "new Palestinian-Lebanese relations reject returning to the black squares that the Fatah Al-Islam gang is trying to drag them to." All the Palestinian factions reject the phenomenon of Al-Absi's gang and crimes," Zaki, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, said.
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Why do I get the feeling that there is something more to this, it is as if they throw Fatah-al-Islam to be slaughtered they will be in a position to ask for some concessions from the West...
Hmmmmmmm...This just does not feel right...
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1) End to Nahr Al-Bared battles imminent -- PLO official
RAMALLAH, June 7 (KUNA) -- The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) representative in Lebanon Abbas Zaki has expected and end soon to the battles by the Lebanese military against the Fatah Al-Islam militants in the Palestinian camp of Naher Al-Bared north of Lebanon.
"The Nahr Al-Bared battle provoked by the Shaker Al-Absi's gang (Fatah Al-Islam) is coming to an end," Zaki told reporters in Ramalaah on Thursday. He urged the Fatah Al-Islam elements to give in to the Lebanese judiciary to receive a just trial.
He added that the remaining members of the group asked to be allowed to leave the camp or to be abandoned inside, but "neither of the two requests is acceptable since they have become rotten goods that won't be allowed to be left after all the crimes they committed." The PLO official noted that Fatah Al-Islam was trying to shift the battle from the North Lebanese camp to the southern refugee camp of Ain Al-Helwa in a bid to undermine the Palestinian-Lebanese relations but they failed after killing two people from Fatah and other two from the Lebanese military "the national army that supports resistance and that will remain a symbol of Lebanon's unity and security." He underlined the fact that Palestinians in Lebanon were not "a rifle for hire" and that the "new Palestinian-Lebanese relations reject returning to the black squares that the Fatah Al-Islam gang is trying to drag them to." All the Palestinian factions reject the phenomenon of Al-Absi's gang and crimes," Zaki, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, said.
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Why do I get the feeling that there is something more to this, it is as if they throw Fatah-al-Islam to be slaughtered they will be in a position to ask for some concessions from the West...
Hmmmmmmm...This just does not feel right...
Pertinent Links:
1) End to Nahr Al-Bared battles imminent -- PLO official
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - LEBANON: AS THE LEBANESE MILITARY IS POUNDING FATAH AL ISLAM INTO OBLIVION, NOT EVEN ONE EYEBROW IS RAISED BY ISLAMIC HANDMAIDENS
My eyebrows have been raised concerning the NON-REACTION by Leftists @ Large when it came to the Lebanese army pounding the crap out of Fatah al Islam and a 'Palestinian' refugee camp...
We witnessed the caterwalling that went on when Israel decided to take it to (too gently I might add) Hiz b'allah (Iran) last summer...
Every Leftist @ Large, Islamic Handmaiden, etc. in the world came out and bloviated about the harshness of Israels attack...
Now, the Lebanese are pounding the crap out of Fatah al Islam and anyone that gets in the way and it is hardly in the news...
Is it racism?!?
Is it anti-semitism?!?
Lebanese army pounds Islamists
Nahr Al-Bared - The Lebanese army backed by helicopters pounded Islamist militiamen besieged in a Palestinian refugee camp on Thursday after a night of violent clashes, AFP correspondents said.
The latest bombardments broke a brief two-hour lull in the fighting between troops surrounding the Nahr al-Bared camp and gunmen from the shadowy Al-Qaeda inspired Fatah al-Islam group holed up inside.
Military helicopters opened fire with heavy weapons on the camp, where the militants have been fighting the army since May 20 in the deadliest peacetime clashes in Lebanon in decades.
The unrest in Nahr al-Bared and another Palestinian refugee camp in the south of the country has claimed a total of 108 lives.
Pertinent Links:
1) Lebanese army pounds Islamists
We witnessed the caterwalling that went on when Israel decided to take it to (too gently I might add) Hiz b'allah (Iran) last summer...
Every Leftist @ Large, Islamic Handmaiden, etc. in the world came out and bloviated about the harshness of Israels attack...
Now, the Lebanese are pounding the crap out of Fatah al Islam and anyone that gets in the way and it is hardly in the news...
Is it racism?!?
Is it anti-semitism?!?
Lebanese army pounds Islamists
Nahr Al-Bared - The Lebanese army backed by helicopters pounded Islamist militiamen besieged in a Palestinian refugee camp on Thursday after a night of violent clashes, AFP correspondents said.
The latest bombardments broke a brief two-hour lull in the fighting between troops surrounding the Nahr al-Bared camp and gunmen from the shadowy Al-Qaeda inspired Fatah al-Islam group holed up inside.
Military helicopters opened fire with heavy weapons on the camp, where the militants have been fighting the army since May 20 in the deadliest peacetime clashes in Lebanon in decades.
The unrest in Nahr al-Bared and another Palestinian refugee camp in the south of the country has claimed a total of 108 lives.
Pertinent Links:
1) Lebanese army pounds Islamists
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