Islamists Rocket Power Station in North Lebanon

[Reuters] Al-Qaeda-inspired militants battling the Lebanese army for more than 10 weeks hit a main power station in north Lebanon with Katyusha rockets on Thursday, disrupting electricity supplies to a wide area. Security sources said Fatah al-Islam militants, holed up in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, fired half a dozen rockets at the Deir Amar power station. At least two rockets hit the plant. In Beirut, military experts defused a Katyusha rocket wired to a timer near the Sabra Palestinian refugee camp.


2007-08-03 01:00:00

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