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Trademark. This conflict began in May,
2007, when the Lebanese Army began a siege of
the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in order to drive
out a militant Islamic militia called Fatah
Islam. The resulting combat killed 158 Lebanese
soldiers, 120 Fatah al-Islam militants and 42
civilians. While war torn countries
continue to suffer, death becomes a natural
occurance, like an incurable glitch in human
understanding. This is not a simple case of
trying to resolve problems with mortgages
and debts. These are hundreds of lives wasted
because of people's ignorant pursuit of
non-sensical truth in war. This conflict, which came a
year after the destructive Israel-Hezbollah War,
tested the capacity of the Lebanese government
to bring violent militias under control. Most of
the fighting took place in the port city of
Tripoli and in the nearby Nahr al-Bared refugee
camp, which is home to thousands of Palestinian
refugees. Lebanon received military
support from the United States in the form of
military equipment and ammunition. As such, this
conflict can be considered a part of the larger
War
on Terror led by the
U.S. The Fatah al-Islam group is an al-Qaida
inspired armed militia which openly challenged
the authority of the Lebanese
government. Fatah al-Islam ("Conquest of
Islam") formed in November, 2006 in northern
Lebanon, drawing members from the largely Sunni
Muslim Palestinian refugee community, as well as
from veteran foreign fighters from the
War
in Iraq.
Fatah al-Islam's leader, Shaker Abssi, is a
Palestinian who fought with jihadist forces in
Iraq, and who had connections to the late
al-Qaida in Iraq leader, Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi.Shaker
Abbsi was sentenced to
death by a Jordanian military court in 2004 for
his alleged involvement in the 2002 murder of
the American diplomat, Laurence Foley, who was
assassinated in Amman, Jordan. The rise of Fatah
al-Islam and other Muslim Jihadist groups among
the Palestinian refugee community is indicative
of the continuing problems the Palestinian
Liberation Organization (PLO), has experienced
since the formation of the Palestinian
Authority, the rise of Hamas, a rival political
organization opposed to Fatah, the primary
Palestinian party. In the decades prior to the
Oslo Peace Accords with Israel, Fatah and the
PLO claimed the support of the majority of
Palestinians. However, in the process of
changing from a liberation army to a governing
political party, Fatah (founded by the late
Yasser Arafat), lost the allegiance of many
young Palestinians, who looked to groups like
Hamas and (to a lesser extent), Fatah al-Islam
for meaning and leaderhip of a more
fundamentalist religous nature. Also, these
fundamentalist Islamic groups advocate continued
war
with Israel, which
Fatah is moving away from. The violence began on May 20,
2007, when Lebanese authorities raided a Fatah
al-Islam safe-house in Tripoli, sparking a
gunbattle. The fighting spread to the nearby
Nahr al-Bared camp, where Fatah al-Islam was
based. The Lebanese Army quickly cordoned off
the camp and began a siege which ended in
September, 2007, as the defeated remnants of
Fatah al-Islam attempted to break out of the
camp and were destroyed in firefights with the
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Lebanon Conflict--Wikipedia
article A
new face of Al Qaeda emerges in Lebanon
--International Herald Tribune Profile:
Fatah al-Islam--al-Jazeera article Lebanon's
New War(s)--From Mobile Newsweek Lebanon:
Fatah Islam Fighters Caught--From the
Associated Press, Sept. 15, 2007 Are
Lebanon and Israel Headed for War?:Word on
The Streets of Beirut is That The Drums
are Beating for Battle--ABC News, Feb.
15, 2010
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