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Lebanon pounds militants hiding in refugee camp
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published June 4, 2007
TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Lebanon's army pounded Islamic militants hiding in a bombed-out Palestinian refugee camp Sunday for the third straight day, while fighting erupted outside another camp in the south, stoking fears of widespread violence breaking out in the country. Fierce fighting has engulfed the outskirts of the Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon since Friday, when the Lebanese army - using tanks and artillery - launched an offensive to drive the Fatah Islam militants from their positions inside the settlement. But they have faced strong resistance, and the relentless bombardments threaten to anger Palestinians in the country's other refugee camps, possibly causing violence to spread.
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