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COMMENTS: Artillery Shells & Sniper’s Bullets
Yesterday ABC's David Wright (subscription required) arrived in Tripoli to report on the fighting between the army of Lebanon and the Fatah al-Islam militant group, "many of them foreign fighters--Yemenis, Saudis, Sudanese, Afghans--fresh from fighting Americans in Iraq." Now NBC's Richard Engel is on the scene, focusing on the plight of the Palestinian residents of the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp caught in the middle: some 15,000 have fled; another 25,000 are still inside. The Lebanese artillery bombardment has flattened housing, trapping bodies under the rubble, while the militants use snipers to defend their position. "There is no food or water remaining…ambulances have come under fire.
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