Cabinet calls for 'vigilance' in face of rumored Islamist infiltration
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Monday, November 12, 2007
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The Lebanese Cabinet called for vigilance on Saturday in the face of reports
of new attempts by Islamist militants to infiltrate the country's dozen
Palestinian refugee camps. "The cabinet took note of the reports of
infiltration into some of the camps aimed at stirring up tensions between
Lebanese and Palestinians and warned against it," Information Minister Ghazi
al-Aridi told reporters.
"We will deal with this phenomenon wherever it occurs as we did in Nahr
al-Bared," he added, referring to the Northern refugee camp which saw a
deadly uprising by Islamist militants this summer.
The cabinet "calls on all the relevant security and political authorities
to be vigilant," Aridi said.
In an interview broadcast Saturday on New TV, the leader of a hardline but
secular Palestinian militant group - Ahmed Jibril of the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine - General Command - said that around 100
militants had infiltrated Lebanon in a bid to repeat the Nahr al-Bared
uprising, pro-government daily Al-Mustaqbal reported.
The Nahr al-Bared militants withstood a siege by the army for more than
three months until September 2. More than 400 people were killed, 168 of
them Lebanese soldiers.
By longstanding convention, the Lebanese Army does not enter the Palestinian
camps, leaving security to mainstream militant groups. The Nahr al-Bared
siege largely focused on an area beyond the camp's conventional boundaries.
Nahr al-Bared's 31,000 refugees were forced from their homes by the
fighting, many into makeshift accommodation in the nearby Beddawi refugee
camp. During a visit to the camp on Saturday, Iranian Embassy
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0-4b36-9a03-fc76763614e6> official Assadollah Kaffachi announced that Iran
was giving $40,000 for schoolchildren displaced from Nahr al-Bared.
"This donation is from Iranian schoolchildren to Palestinian
schoolchildren," he said, adding that Iran would provide further financial
assistance until the displaced refugees
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Meanwhile, speaking during the cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora
said that the government is seeking the election of a new president and the
establishment of a new government in order to consolidate democracy.
"We are calling on the international community to assist Lebanon in the
implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701," Siniora said.
He added that continuous Israeli violations of Lebanon's sovereignty were
"unacceptable. "These are clear provocations to Lebanon and the
international community," he added.
Siniora said regional and international efforts are aimed at helping Lebanon
hold the presidential election according to the Constitution, and not
imposing a president. - With AFP
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