June 07, 2007

Lebanese Islamists seek surrender of camp militants | U.S. | Reuters


Lebanese Islamists seek surrender of camp militants | U.S. | Reuters
: "TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese Islamists on Thursday sought the surrender of al Qaeda-inspired militants locked in deadly battles with troops at a Palestinian refugee camp but the group said it would not give itself up.

Two members of Lebanon's Islamic Action Front, which includes Sunni politicians and clerics, went to the Nahr al-Bared camp for talks with Fatah al-Islam's military commander Shahin Shahin, the Front's leader Fathi Yakan said.

'(Fatah al-Islam) have reached a dead end. They can only surrender,' Yakan said in the city of Tripoli, just south of Nahr al-Bared. 'The only thing that will convince them is sharia (Islamic law), and religious reason.'" Read complete post here.