The never-ending crisis

"The siege of Nahr el-Bared by thousands of Lebanese army troops has entered its third week now, and it may be metastasizing. Clashes broke out at the Ein el-Helweh camp south of Sidon yesterday between the Lebanese army and Jund al-Sham overnight and two soldiers were killed. Two militants were also killed.
The fighting erupted just hours after Abu Riyadh, who had previously belonged to Jund al-Sham, was killed in Nahr al-Bared.

Jund al-Sham is yet another Salafist/Islamist group that has found a haven in the squalid and miserable Palestinian camps in Lebanon, thanks in no small part because the Lebanese have let the Palestinians stew rather than integrate them into the greater society. This policy has created fetid breeding grounds for extremist ideologies in tune with al Qaeda’s, ideologies which are in marked contrast to the more laid back and sophisticated Mediterranean outlook of most of Lebanon."
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