Heavy Gunfire Breaks Truce in Lebanon

[AngryAmish]

Source: ap



"TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) -- Heavy exchanges of gunfire erupted Thursday night between Lebanese troops besieging a Palestinian refugee camp and Islamic militants holed up inside, breaking a two-day-old truce.

It was not clear what prompted the exchanges. Until sundown Thursday, only sporadic gunfire marred the truce.

Earlier in the day, the Lebanese army moved troops around the Nahr el-Bared camp but did not try to advance, apparently giving time for negotiations and for the militants to comply with a government ultimatum to surrender or face a military assault.

The renewed exchanges also came as both sides dug in in their positions -- the government determined to root out the militants and the fighters refusing to surrender."


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1. This new format is freakng me out.

[whistle]

1. Dick Cheney whirlwind trip to the middle east has been an explosive success

...He doesn't get the name "Crash-cast" for no reason. War mongering bastard!

[formercia]

2. That war he cooked up with Israel against hezbullah didn't work either.

He wants a full-blown World War to justify his existence.