[osint] Fatah al-Islam: shadowy Al-Qaeda-inspired group
Fatah al-Islam: shadowy Al-Qaeda-inspired group Published: 9/2/2007 BEIRUT - Fatah al-Islam, whose militants on Sunday appeared to be fighting the final hours of their three-month standoff with the Lebanese army, is a shadowy Islamist group that shares ideological ties with Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda. The Fatah al-Islam fighters, estimated to number 70, tried vainly on Sunday to break out of their besieged Nahr al-Bared camp in north Lebanon but lost about 20 dead and a dozen captured, according to the army. Fierce fighting continued in part of the camp as military reinforcements swept in to end the standoff. Last month, the US State Department announced that it had designated Fatah al-Islam, which denies formal links with al-Qaeda, as a terrorist group. As part of ongoing US efforts against terrorism, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice designated Fatah al-Islam as a specially designated global terrorist group under US law, the state department in Washington said in a statement. It said the group initiated hostilities in Nahr al-Bared north of Lebanon's second city of Tripoli with an unprovoked attack on Lebanese security forces nearly three months ago. Before the fighting erupted the camp was home to about 31,000 people, and the group said it was training young Palestinians in the camp to fight the Jews in Palestine. Lebanese authorities have accused Fatah al-Islam of working for the Syrian intelligence services, but Damascus has denied any links with the group headed by Shaker Abssi, a Palestinian wanted by both Syria and Jordan. In February, Fatah al-Islam was accused of carrying out bus bombings in a mountainous Christian area north of Beirut in which three people died. It denied any involvement, and accused the government of trying to pave the way for an offensive against the Palestinian camps in Lebanon, which house more than half of the country's nearly 400,000 refugees. Fatah al-Islam announced its creation last November 26, several days after two of its members were arrested by the Lebanese authorities. 09/02/2007 10:32 GMT (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/
[osint] Fatah al-Islam: shadowy Al-Qaeda inspired group
Fatah al-Islam: shadowy Al-Qaeda inspired group * http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=07 0520121332.gtluvmq6 http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=0 70520121332.gtluvmq6cat=null cat=null Fatah al-Islam, whose fighters were locked in deadly gunbattles with Lebanese forces on Sunday, is a shadowy Islamic extremist group accused of links to the Al-Qaeda terror network. The radical splinter group has its stronghold near the port city of Tripoli in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared camp, which is home to about 22,000 people. It says it is training young Palestinians in the camp to fight the Jews in Palestine. Lebanese authorities have accused Fatah al-Islam, said to be ideologically inspired by the Al-Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden, of working for the Syrian intelligence services. But Syria has denied any links with Islamist groups such as Fatah al-Islam, which is headed by Shaker Abssi, a Palestinian wanted by both Syria and Jordan. The group was also accused of carrying out bus bombings in a mountainous Christian area north of Beirut in February that left three people dead. But Fatah al-Islam denied any involvement in the bombings, and also denied it was linked to Al-Qaeda. It in turn accused the Beirut government of trying to pave the way for an offensive against the Palestinian camps in Lebanon, which house more than half of the country's nearly 400,000 refugees. Fatah al-Islam announced its creation last November 26, several days after two of its members were arrested by the Lebanese authorities. Abssi, born in Jericho in 1955, is said to be linked to the former leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Jordanian-born extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who was killed in a US air strike in 2006. Abssi served a three-year jail sentence in Syria from 2003 and is now based in Nahr al-Bared, facing a new arrest warrant issued by the authorities in Damascus. Fatah al-Islam is one of the groups linked to Al-Qaeda that was unmasked in August 2002 while planning to launch acts of terrorism in Syria, Interior Minister Baasam Abdel Majid said in March. Abssi denied Majid's allegations in an interview with a Lebanese newspaper in the same month. I was jailed in Syria, but not over links with Al-Qaeda as he has claimed, Abssi said. I was jailed because I was accused of having planned to carry out an operation in the Golan (Syrian territory occupied by Israel), as well as of having carried and smuggled arms into Palestine, he said. In 2004, a Jordanian military court sentenced Abssi to death in absentia for his alleged involvement in the murder of American USAID diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman in 2002, along with six others including Zarqawi. At the time, the charge sheet identified Abssi as a Palestinian nicknamed Abu Yussef, and said he lived in Syria. Palestinian officials in the Lebanese camps have expressed mounting concern about Fatah al-Islam. On Sunday Fahmi Zaarir, Fatah spokesman in the Israel-occupied West Bank, denied that the mainstream movement of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was in any way linked to the group. Fatah al-Islam has no link with the Fatah movement. There is absolutely no connection and they have no right to use the name Fatah, he said. Following his release from jail in Syria Abssi was said to have lived in Damascus where Fatah-Intifada, the Palestinian group he belonged to before Fatah al-Islam was founded, is based. That group also denies any link with Fatah al-Islam and calls Abssi a renegade from our movement. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED
