[Ya Libnan-Lebanon] The interrogation of detained Fatah al-Islam terrorists unveiled plans to seize control of a "big section" of northern Lebanon, to "destabilize" the country by shelling government institutions and business facilities, and to attack UN peacekeepers. A large number of the militants were "true jihadis," or holy warriors, who were under the impression that they were going to fight in Iraq. Most of the non-Lebanese militants had illegally crossed into Lebanon overland from Syria via a border area controlled by Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, which is backed and financed by Syria.
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