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Islamists hit Lebanon power station with rockets |
2007-08-03 |
Al Qaeda-inspired militants battling the Lebanese army for more than 10 weeks hit a main power station in north Lebanon with Katyusha rockets on Thursday, disrupting electricity supplies to wide areas. Security sources said Fatah Al Islam militants, holed up in Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp, fired half a dozen rockets at Deir Amar power station. At least two rockets hit the plant. Kamal Hayek, the chairman of the state-owned electricity company, told Lebanon’s official news agency that production at the 400-megawatt facility was halted while damage was assessed. In Beirut, military experts defused a Katyusha rocket wired to a timer and set to explode, security sources said. The device was found near the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra. The destruction of Nahr Al-Bared camp, usually home to 40,000 refugees, has angered Palestinians across Lebanon, although very few of them support Fatah Al-Islam. Separately, two Lebanese soldiers were killed in the refugee camp battle, a military spokesman said. “Two soldiers were killed in the confrontations today,” the spokesman told AFP. He earlier said one of the dead was an officer. |
Posted by:Fred |
#4 I wonder how long it'll take George & Co to realize that backstabing Israel to promote "Nation Building" in Lebanon, was a miscalculation? Probably right up until the first Hezbollah sponsored terrorist attack on American soil. But don't count on even that changing how he spews the Religion of Peace [spit] Kool-Aid. |
Posted by: Zenster 2007-08-03 12:28 |
#3 I wonder how long it'll take George & Co to realize that backstabing Israel to promote "Nation Building" in Lebanon, was a miscalculation? |
Posted by: gromgoru 2007-08-03 07:37 |
#2 Al Qaeda-inspired militants battling the Lebanese army for more than 10 weeks hit a main power station in north Lebanon with Katyusha rockets on Thursday, disrupting electricity supplies to wide areas. Yeah, that's really gonna endear al Qaeda in the "Winning Hearts & Mindz Campaign™". Electrical black-outs are an indisputable sign of Allah's love. |
Posted by: Zenster 2007-08-03 05:32 |
#1 Never had none of this infidel 'lectricity in Mo's day... |
Posted by: Howard UK 2007-08-03 05:18 |