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Lebanon detains a Yemeni militant of Fatah al-Islam | |
2007-09-10 | |
Lebanese troops have detained a Yemeni militant who gave himself up after being spotted hiding in a field near a refugee camp where a three-month siege ended last week, a military source said on Sunday. "The Yemeni was captured at around 11 pm (2000 GMT) on Saturday in the village of Nabi Kzayber, in the Menniyeh region " some two kilometers (just over a mile) from the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp where Islamist militants put up a ferocious resistance to the army siege, the source said.
Troops have launched intensive search operations around Nahr al-Bared since the battle ended on September 2 with a desperate breakout attempt by the remaining militants. Soldiers have killed at least four militants who managed to break through army lines and captured around a dozen more, according to reporters On Sunday, three military helicopters were focusing their search on a mountainous area between 10 and 50 kilometers (between six and 30 miles) north of the camp, a reporter said. Fatah al Islam militants were of several nationalities , including Saudi, Syrian, Yemeni, Algerian , Palestinian and Lebanese. A ranking police officer told the Saudi newspaper Okaz that 21 Saudis were involved with the Fatah al-Islam terrorist group, 12 of them were killed and nine arrested | |
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