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| Lebanon Denies Al-Qaeda in Ain al-Hilweh |
| 2002-09-03 |
| Lebanese and Palestinian refugee officials denied Tuesday a report in the Israeli daily Haâaretz that Syria permitted more than 150 al-Qaida activists to enter the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh in southern Lebanon. âThis is a matter of lies peddled by Israel and the United States. There are no al-Qaida members in Lebanon,â Information Minister Ghazi Aradi said. "Lies! All lies! There is no al-Qaeda! It's all a Zionist plot...!" The local chief of Fatah movement in Ain El-Helweh also categorically rejected the Haâaretz report. There âare no members of Al-Qaida in the Palestinian camps in Lebanon,â Munir Maqdah said. âThe Israelis peddle these lies to take away attention from their failure to subdue the Intifada,â he added. "They ain't al-Qaeda. They're just nuts." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |