Mastermind behind al-Lino’s Assassination Succeeds Awad as Fatah al-Islam Leader
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Fatah al-Islam has appointed Usama al-Shahabi as the new leader of the group after the death of its former leader Abdul Rahman Awad who was killed in an army ambush in Shtoura in 2010, revealed a Fatah source to the Central News Agency on Tuesday.
Confessions of two Fatah al-Islam members revealed that al-Shahabi was the mastermind of the failed assassination attempt against Fatah's Lebanon commander Mahmoud Issa, alias "Al-Lino", added the source.
The assassination attempt took place about a week ago and was conducted by some Jund al-Sham members.
Shahabi also oversaw the clashes that took place between Fatah, Jund al-Sham, and Fatah al-Islam that broke out at the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp over the weekend.
The source explained that Jund al-Sham and Fatah al-Islam have been harmed by the reconciliation between the Fatah and Hamas Palestinian groups in Cairo and the improved ties between the Lebanese state and Palestinian Liberation Organization, as well as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ upcoming visit to Lebanon.
The source said that Abbas will stress during his trip that the refugee camps are a part of Lebanon and they will not be a “thorn in its side.”
The Palestinian authorities in Ain al-Hilweh have succeeded in withdrawing armed individuals from the camp after Sunday’s clashes between Fatah, Jund al-Sham, and Fatah al-Islam.
09 August 2011, 17:05
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It is clean up time.
The more we delay the higher price we will have to pay.
Time to clean and disarm all these camps.
These thugs have to remember that they are visitors here and they must live under the law.
No More Weapons inside and outside the camps.
09 August 2011, 20:44
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Congratulations on your new promotion. Now take your team of cheap terrorists and settle down in Damascus, Gaza, Kabul or Baghdad. Leave us alone wako.
09 August 2011, 21:19
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The Palestinian camps remain a main source of problems and a hindrance to any Lebanese recovery.
A humanitarian solution should be implemented by allowing the Palestinians who are able to work to emigrate from the camps to the rich Arab countries. They could be easily assimilated in an economy that hires around 9 million imported foreign workers.
Then after a few years they could bring their families to live with them. This might end in a few years the despicable conditions under which the refugees live and will stop the exploitation of their misery by the different factions.
If the Arabs have a heart and a conscience they should get the refugees out of the camps and assimilate them and not keep them waiting for an illusionary "right of return" promise.
