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...Islamic militant brandishing a hand grenade to evade arrest, or a peaceful religiously devout Muslim who had forsworn his radical past? Either way, his death last week in a hail of bullets fired by Lebanese police has ignited strong anti-government passions in the impoverished Tebbaneh neighborhood of Tripoli and a backlash of sympathy for a band of Islamic radicals battling Lebanese troops in a Palestinian refugee camp 10 miles to the north...
...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...
...Absi's fighters have proved tenacious foes. On Sunday, the army had to spend all day winkling well-armed militants out of residential buildings in the Zaharieh district of central Tripoli. The men of Fatah al-Islam fired machine guns and hurled grenades at the soldiers, who sought cover behind armored personnel carriers and battered the cramped apartment buildings with rifle and heavy machine-gun fire, ripping chunks of masonry from the walls and filling the air with dust and gun smoke...
...TRIPOLI, LEBANON Fighting with new militants erupts...
...peace: Fatah al-Islam--a Palestinian faction with links to Syria and alleged ties to al-Qaeda--which is accused of bus bombings, bank robberies and attacks on Lebanese soldiers. In late May security forces seeking to rout the group bombarded the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp outside Tripoli. The fighting killed at least 50 soldiers and militants and an unknown number of civilians. It has been the deadliest internal clash since the end of the 15-year civil...