I just spoke to a business associate in Beirut - he told me the government has seen the writing on the wall - and they have decided to flatten the refuge camp (on the news right now).
He said everyone know the Palestinians, and Al Queda are working together.
Watch carefully he told me - the middle east is about to take a stand against these radicals.
This notion that this started with a bank robbery - is pure bull.
This is a well coordinated - long planned attack.
I smell U.S. involvement - but no conspiracy.
Fatah al-Islam, said to be an offshoot of the Syrian-based group Fatah al-Intifada, is headed by Shaker Abssi, who was born in Jericho in 1955 and is said to be linked to the former leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Abssi, who was jailed for three years by Syria in 2003 and is also wanted by Jordan on suspicion of involvement in the 2002 killing of a US diplomat.