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Fighting flared at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Tripoli between the army of Lebanon and Fatah al-Islam militants. The siege began 13 days ago and "had gone quiet for several days" according to CBS' London-based Mark Phillips, until the army received fresh ammunition from the United States. NBC's Richard Engel was on the scene. He reported that Lebanese "special forces" had stormed the Palestinian camp while the militants "retreated to the few areas" that are still densely populated, using the 3,000 to 5,000 civilians trapped there "as human shields." Engel called Fatah al-Islam "al-Qaeda-inspired radicals." Phillips was slightly more dismissive: it is "an international ragtag force said to be ideologically, but not operationally, linked to al-Qaeda.
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