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Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon under siege after deadly shooting incident
Al Bawaba, the Middle East Gateway ^
| July 12 2002
Posted on 07/12/2002 1:12:29 PM PDT by knighthawk
The Lebanese army was laying siege to a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, demanding the handover of a man accused of killing three of its intelligence agents before taking refuge with a militant Palestinian group inside.
The army, which sent reinforcements into the Sidon area 40 kilometers (south of Beirut and around the camp, called on camp leaders to seek out and surrender Badih Hamade, a Lebanese Shiite.
According to AFP, Palestinian sources said Friday, that Hamade was hiding in the Ain al Helweh camp with Sheikh Abdullah Shreidi, leader of a splinter group of the fundamentalist Usbat al-Ansar, which has many supporters in the camp and is branded as "terrorist" by the United States.
The popular committees, which include the camp's political and military leaders, issued a statement Friday ordering Shreidi to "hand over the author of the crime who is hiding with him ... otherwise a joint security force will go and winkle him out." The statement did not say how long Shreidi had been given.
Hamade, also known as Abu Obeida, is accused of killing Thursday three military intelligence agents who were watching him on the road between the Ain al Helweh and Mieh-Mieh refugee camps, east of Sidon.
He is also accused of being responsible for bomb attacks on military checkpoints around Ain al Helweh in the past few months. A Palestinian source said Hamade was wounded in the shoulder in an exchange of fire Thursday.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abuobeida; hamade; lebanon; palestinian; refugeecamp
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To: knighthawk
Taken from
Lebanese Liberation about this incident:
The Daily Star - "The army laid siege to the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon on Friday and issued an ultimatum for the handover of a Lebanese man suspected of shooting three soldiers to death the night before. On Friday evening, the army closed the main entrance to the camp, preventing pedestrians and vehicles from entering or leaving, after closing the western entrance earlier in the day ... The army asked various Palestinian factions in the Ain al-Hilweh to arrest and hand over Hamadeh, believed to have taken shelter in the camp."
So lets get this straight. A murderous scumbag kills 3 Lebanese soldiers. The Lebanese military surrounds the Palestinian camp where the scumbag is hiding ... and then, they kindly ask the Palestinian terrorist groups inside to hand him over???? What has this country come to? Our military should have the right to go into these Palestinian camps and clean them of their criminal and terrorist elements. But no ... instead, all they can do is surround the camp and kindly ask the terrorists inside to hand over the criminal. What a shame. I really feel sick to my stomach and hope that maybe one day our puppet-government will grow enough courage to exert their control over these camps. To make matters even worse, our puppet-president has claimed that the murders of our 3 soldiers were committed by Israel. What manner of ... excuse me, I must go vomit now. What a shame our country has turned into. It feels like the Twilight zone.
To: The Bored One
Remember Syria controls Lebanon. And since Syria also funds international terrorism...
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