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Militants kill four soldiers in northern Lebanon
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 02 - 08 - 2007

Al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam militants holed up
in the northern Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared
killed four Lebanese soldiers in intense fighting Thursday, according to dpa.
A high ranking-Lebanese security source said: "Two soldiers were
killed in the early hours of the morning and two others fell martyrs
during the day."
The source said some of the soldiers were killed by sniper fire
and others while dismantling booby traps left behind by the
militants.
The four deaths raised to 129 the number of troops killed since
the fighting began on May 20.
Fierce fighting erupted on Thursday as troops pounded the
remaining Fatah al-Islam hideouts in the old sector of the camp with
artillery and tank fire, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Three army helicopters flew over Nahr el-Bared, apparently
searching for militants, but made no bombing runs, it added.
According to Palestinian sources, 12 militants were killed since
Wednesday by the Lebanese army.
In response to the army's shelling, Fatah al-Islam militants fired
six Katyusha rockets on villages near the camp, causing damage to a
power plant but no casualties.
The rockets were fired from the seafront area in Nahr al-Bared and
hit the Deir Ammar power station causing minor damage, Ahmed Eid, the
head of the municipality at Deir Ammar, said.
Eid said one of the rockets landed near one of the reservoirs,
causing a fire that was quickly contained. Another rocket hit a
building, while three others landed on the grounds of the facility.
The power station was shut down after the rocket attack. Kamal
Hayek, 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.
Most of the 40,000 residents have fled the camp in the meantime.
Remaining are around 60 women and children - most of them family
members of Fatah al-Islam militants.
The army has refused to halt its military offensive before the
militants fully surrender, but the gunmen have vowed to fight to the
death.
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 on Beirut's outskirts.
The conflict in Nahr el-Bared is Lebanon's worst internal violence
since the 1975-90 civil war.


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