Word: islamic
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...used to support the government, now we are all with Fatah al-Islam," said local resident Mohammed Ammar, 22, referring to the small Al-Qaeda-linked faction bottled up in the Nahr al-Bared camp whose leaders have sworn to fight to the death...
...When fierce gun battles broke out on the streets of Tripoli a week ago pitting Fatah al-Islam militants against Lebanese security forces, few residents of Lebanon's second largest city had any taste for the shadowy faction which has rarely been out of Lebanon's headlines since emerging late last year...
...week on, and the mood is changing in districts like Tebbaneh, a poor slum-like quarter in Tripoli long receptive to the clarion call of Islamic extremism. Television footage of seemingly indiscriminate army shelling of the Nahr al-Bared camp, home to 40,000 people, and a crackdown against Islamists in Tripoli have soured sympathy for the government's bid to eradicate Fatah al-Islam...
...Fatah al-Islam residents of Tebbaneh blew themselves up when surrounded by police in Tripoli last week. The funeral for one was held here Saturday, his shattered body tightly wrapped in a green Islamic shroud, furious mourners yelling revenge packing the street outside his home...
...Lebanese government has sworn to crush Fatah al-Islam and an imminent showdown at Nahr al-Bared seems to be drawing near, but the boiling resentment in neighborhoods like Tebbaneh suggests that Lebanon's struggle against radical Islamists may be far from over...