As I’ve written before, Lebanon is the most logical next target for global jihad in the Middle East. Here’s Nic Blanford’s latest:
Fatah al-Islam, which violently burst onto Lebanon’s turbulent political scene, triggered the worst internal violence since the 1975-19 civil war. But even though its leader, Shaker al-Absi, is dead and almost all his militants killed or captured, many Lebanese worry that it’s just a matter of time before Sunni jihadi violence erupts again.
A weak central government, ill-equipped and factionalized security services, extremist Islamic groups in Palestinian camps, and the tempting target of European-led United Nations peacekeepers in the south make Lebanon a potentially attractive base for operations, analysts say.
“There is a nucleus of groups here that could easily become Al Qaeda in Lebanon,” says Amal Saad-Ghorayeb of the Carnegie Endowment’s Middle East Center in Beirut.
6 responses so far ↓
1 AG in Houston // Sep 5, 2007 at 2:36 am
Charles Levinson
Please explain to me the UN’s silence, as well as the NGOs and the rest of the non-aligned movement’s silence over the killing of those poor palestinian refugees.
Surely there is a war crime here somewhere?
Or is that only reserved for Jews?
2 Jenin // Sep 5, 2007 at 9:09 am
No differnce between Jenin and Naher al-Bard
3 anon // Sep 5, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Except one had minute-by-minute media coverage, and the other didn’t.
4 Jenin // Sep 5, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Jenin had rumors covergae not media coverage
5 anon // Sep 6, 2007 at 7:05 am
Rumours that were reported endlessly in the media
6 Lewis // Sep 6, 2007 at 9:59 pm
AG in Houston, what are you talking about? Fatah al-Islam is (was?) a violent militia that attacked the Lebanese Army and fired rockets at the surrounding Lebanese residents. They were pawns of Syrian meddlers, and a ploy to spark instability. Their actions forced the peaceful Palestinian residents of Naher al-Bard to leave as Fatah al-Islam turned it into a war zone.
Are you confusing this with something else?
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