Lebanon - Battles Between Lebanese Security Forces and Islamic Militants
(13 Jun 2007) 523344 AP TELEVISION Tripoli - 20 May 2007 1. Tanks and soldiers in the streets of residential area 2. Soldiers firing from armoured vehicles at building occupied by militants 10:05:32 523379 AP TELEVISION Tripoli and Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp - 20 May 2007 Tripoli 3. Lebanese army troops running across street and firing at building 4. Soldier firing at building Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp 5. Tank firing missile on target inside refugee camp 10:05:53 523492 AP TELEVISION nr Nahr El-Bared - 21 May 2007 6. Wide of Tripoli skyline, building explodes 7. Wider shot of black smoke, AUDIO: loud explosion, pan to fresh white plume of smoke 10:06:06 523528 AP TELEVISION Nahr El-Bared - 21 May 2007 8. Wide of skyline with smoke rising 10:06:10 523595 AP TELEVISION Near Nahr el-Bared, Lebanon - 22 May 2007 9. Wide of explosion on top of building with black smoke billowing from building AUDIO: gunfire and shelling 10:06:17 523742 AP TELEVISION Nahr el-Bared - 23 May 2007 10. Various of refugees leaving camp 11. Refugees getting out of red truck 12. Refugees in red truck 13. Various of damaged buildings inside camp 14. Pan across destroyed vehicle 10:06:41 524975 AP TELEVISION Nahr el-Bared - 2 June 2007 15. Wide skyline shot of camp with explosion and smoke rising 16. Lebanese army helicopter flying over camp 10:06:51 524834 AP TELEVISION Nahr el-Bared - 1 June 2007 17. Various of armoured cars and military vehicles on the move 10:07:06 526205 AP TELEVISION Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp - 13 June 2007 18. Various of shelling at camp 19. Various of shelling STORYLINE: Lebanese tanks pounded shells at a militant group's headquarters in a Palestinian refugee camp next to the northern city of Tripoli on the afternoon of Sunday 20th May. The shelling came hours after clashes that left 13 soldiers and several militants dead, along with dozens of wounded. Security officials reported a further 19 soldiers and 14 police officers injured in the fighting, the worst violence to hit the northern city in two decades. A spokesman for the Fatah Islam group, Abu Salim, said two militants were killed and five wounded inside the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp. The group is considered by some Lebanese officials to be a radical Sunni Muslim group with ties to al-Qaida, or at least al-Qaida style militancy and doctrine. The fighting threatens to further destabilise a conflict-ridden Lebanon that is facing its worst political fall out between the Western-backed government and pro-Syrian opposition since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. Initially, gunfire erupted early on the 20th after police raided a militant-occupied apartment on Mitein Street, a major thoroughfare in Tripoli, looking for suspects in a bank robbery a day earlier in Amyoun, a town southeast of Tripoli, in which gunmen made off with 125-thousand US dollars in cash. The armed militants resisted arrest and a series of battles then ensued that spread to surrounding streets and the nearby Palestinian refugee camp. Lebanese troops pounded a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery and tank fire for a second day on Monday 21st May, raising huge palls of smoke as they battled a militant group suspected of ties to al-Qaida. The fighters holed up in the camp returned fire - lending credence to reports that they are far better armed than first thought. Black smoke billowed from the area after artillery and machine gun exchanges at the Nahr el-Bared camp on the outskirts of the port city of Tripoli. About 1-thousand fled on Wednesday morning. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
