Lebanon Votes To Replace Assassinated Pols

Tense Election Has Become Major Showdown Between U.S.-Backed Government And Its Opponents

(AP)  On Saturday, a senior military official reported that two Lebanese soldiers have been killed in continued fighting between the army and al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

The army has been advancing slowly into Nahr el-Bared camp, targeting the fortifications and tunnels used by Fatah Islam fighters, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

One soldier died Saturday and another a day earlier, the official reported, raising to 133 the number of troops killed since fighting erupted May 20.

"Every day there is progress," said the official, adding that troops were being cautious because of the presence of civilians in the area controlled by Fatah Islam. Most civilians left the camp shortly after the fighting began, but some family members of the gunmen have remained.

In an attempt to ease the army's pressure, militants have been firing Katyusha rockets at nearby villages almost daily. A Lebanese woman was wounded Saturday in such an attack, the state-run National News Agency said.

On Thursday, six rockets fired by the militants on nearby villages damaged a power plant in Deir Amar but caused no casualties. The attack halted production at the plant and increased electricity rationing, which is common in the Beirut area during the summer when air conditioner use drives up energy consumption.

The army has refused to halt its offensive until the militants completely surrender, but the gunmen have vowed to fight to the death.

The conflict in Nahr el-Bared, near the northern port city of Tripoli, is Lebanon's worst internal violence since the 1975-90 civil war. An undetermined number of militants — at least 60 — and more than 20 civilians have died in the fighting, according to Lebanese and U.N. relief officials.

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The two assesinated anti-Syrian politicians were expected to be replaced by another two anti-Syrian candidates.
Well, surprise, surprise: The pro-Syrian candidate that won the election was voted in by his own Christian community.
And this is what I, as a Palestinian athiest and as an Arab, have been trying to explain to Americans: Things are not so black and white back home.
When 9/11 happened there was an American couple dining in a restaurant owned and staffed by Lebanese Christians in the Christian section of Lebanon. These American witnessed with their own eyes how the entire restaurant erupted in applause and cheers when images of 9/11 were shown on the TV.
So the Palestinians that were shown on American TV were not the only ones celebrating the 9/11 tragedy. And you have to ask yourself is if Lebanese Christians celebrated who else did the same throughout the Arab world.
And why? Why?! Does any American out there give a shoot about why it happened? Can anyone explain to me why a pro-Syrian candidate was chosen to power this Sunday by the Lebanese Christians?
Why I as an atheist am strongly pro-Hamas? Hamas itself fielded 20 female and 6 Christian candidates during the 2006 elections.
Get the picture? Confused yet? Well, then hit the books, read what Arabs themselves and not American journalists have to say about what's going on in the Middle East and educate yourselves for freaking once in your lives

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IT IS TIME TO DEFEAT FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAM ONCE AND FOR ALL%u2026

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson, then U.S. ambassador to France, and John Adams, then American Ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Dey%u2019s ambassador to Britain, in an attempt to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress%u2019 vote of funding. To Congress, these two future presidents later reported the reasons for the Muslims%u2019 hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.

%u2026that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.

Sound familiar?

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison defeated the fascist nazi muslims 200 years ago
And again 100 years ago with Theodore Roosevelt
Tunisia in 1881 by France and Libya in 1911 by Italy. By then most of the Islamic world was under Christian domination. With the Ottoman Empire defeated in WW1, secularist Turkish rebels in 1923 overthrew the last Islamic Caliphate,
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?6bdec278-6a71-4436-bc4d-29d1c54b0ad7

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NOW CAN WE KILL THEM???
If they can kill us, we can kill them

Qaeda warns of attacks 'worse than 9/11'
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070530102648.wuwa6k96&show_article=1

Hizbullah Deputy Sec-Gen Sheikh Naim Qassem: We Have Jurisprudent Permission to Carry Out 'Martyrdom' Operations, Fire Missiles on Israeli Civilians From Ayatollah Khomeini
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD154907

Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp

But then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden.

"It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.

Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.

The fatwa justified killing non-Muslim civilians everywhere.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/04/60minutes/main2761108.shtml?source=RSSattr=60Minutes_2761108
American Al Qaeda Member Threatens Attack
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/29/terror/main2865282.shtml

[lars008-2009]

it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid%u2026.

non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...


Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan

[closethippy1]

The two assesinated anti-Syrian politicians were expected to be replaced by another two anti-Syrian candidates.
Well, surprise, surprise: The pro-Syrian candidate that won the election was voted in by his own Christian community.
And this is what I, as a Palestinian athiest and as an Arab, have been trying to explain to Americans: Things are not so black and white back home.
When 9/11 happened there was an American couple dining in a restaurant owned and staffed by Lebanese Christians in the Christian section of Lebanon. These American witnessed with their own eyes how the entire restaurant erupted in applause and cheers when images of 9/11 were shown on the TV.
So the Palestinians that were shown on American TV were not the only ones celebrating the 9/11 tragedy. And you have to ask yourself is if Lebanese Christians celebrated who else did the same throughout the Arab world.
And why? Why?! Does any American out there give a shoot about why it happened? Can anyone explain to me why a pro-Syrian candidate was chosen to power this Sunday by the Lebanese Christians?
Why I as an atheist am strongly pro-Hamas? Hamas itself fielded 20 female and 6 Christian candidates during the 2006 elections.
Get the picture? Confused yet? Well, then hit the books, read what Arabs themselves and not American journalists have to say about what's going on in the Middle East and educate yourselves for freaking once in your lives.