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North
Lebanon Conflict—(May 20, 2007- September
2, 2007) This conflict began in May, 2007, when the
Lebanese Army began a siege of the Nahr al-Bared
refugee camp in order to drive out a militant
Islamic militia called Fatah Islam. The resulting
combat killed 158 Lebanese soldiers, 120 Fatah
al-Islam militants and 42 civilians. While war torn countries continue to suffer,
death becomes a natural occurance, like an
incurable glitch in human understanding. This is
not a simple case of trying to resolve problems
with mortgages
and debts. These are hundreds of lives wasted
because of people's ignorant pursuit of
non-sensical truth in war. This conflict, which came a year after the
destructive Israel-Hezbollah War, tested the
capacity of the Lebanese government to bring
violent militias under control. Most of the
fighting took place in the port city of Tripoli and
in the nearby Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, which is
home to thousands of Palestinian refugees. Lebanon received military support from the
United States in the form of military equipment and
ammunition. As such, this conflict can be
considered a part of the larger War
on Terror led by the U.S. The Fatah al-Islam
group is an al-Qaida inspired armed militia which
openly challenged the authority of the Lebanese
government. Fatah al-Islam ("Conquest of Islam") formed in
November, 2006 in northern Lebanon, drawing members
from the largely Sunni Muslim Palestinian refugee
community, as well as from veteran foreign fighters
from the War in
Iraq. Fatah al-Islam's leader,
Shaker Abssi, is a Palestinian who fought with
jihadist forces in Iraq, and who had connections to
the late al-Qaida in Iraq leader, Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi.Shaker Abbsi was
sentenced to death by a Jordanian military court in
2004 for his alleged involvement in the 2002 murder
of the American diplomat, Laurence Foley, who was
assassinated in Amman, Jordan. The rise of Fatah
al-Islam and other Muslim Jihadist groups among the
Palestinian refugee community is indicative of the
continuing problems the Palestinian Liberation
Organization (PLO), has experienced since the
formation of the Palestinian Authority, the rise of
Hamas, a rival political organization opposed to
Fatah, the primary Palestinian party. In the
decades prior to the Oslo Peace Accords with
Israel, Fatah and the PLO claimed the support of
the majority of Palestinians. However, in the
process of changing from a liberation army to a
governing political party, Fatah (founded by the
late Yasser Arafat), lost the allegiance of many
young Palestinians, who looked to groups like Hamas
and (to a lesser extent), Fatah al-Islam for
meaning and leaderhip of a more fundamentalist
religous nature. Also, these fundamentalist Islamic
groups advocate continued war
with Israel, which Fatah is moving away
from. The violence began on May 20, 2007, when
Lebanese authorities raided a Fatah al-Islam
safe-house in Tripoli, sparking a gunbattle. The
fighting spread to the nearby Nahr al-Bared camp,
where Fatah al-Islam was based. The Lebanese Army
quickly cordoned off the camp and began a siege
which ended in September, 2007, as the defeated
remnants of Fatah al-Islam attempted to break out
of the camp and were destroyed in firefights with
the Lebanese military. Copyright
© 1998-2010 Roger A. Lee; Last Modified:
02.16.10 "The
History Guy" is a Registered Trademark. Citation Lee,
R. "The History Guy: North Lebanon Conflict
(2007)" http://www.historyguy.com/north_lebanon_conflict_2007.htm 2007
Lebanon
Conflict--Wikipedia
article A
new face of Al Qaeda emerges in Lebanon
--International
Herald Tribune Profile:
Fatah
al-Islam--al-Jazeera
article Lebanon's
New
War(s)--From
Mobile Newsweek Lebanon:
Fatah Islam Fighters
Caught--From
the Associated Press, Sept. 15,
2007 Are
Lebanon and Israel Headed for War?:Word on
The Streets of Beirut is That The Drums
are Beating for
Battle--ABC
News, Feb. 15, 2010
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