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Shelling Ceases in Lebanon
Lebanese police officers secure the site of an explosion in the Verdun shopping area in the Muslim sector of Beirut.
(Photos By Hussein Malla -- Associated Press)
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On Tuesday, one of the radical fighters blew himself up with an explosives belt after troops traced him to an apartment in Tripoli, authorities said.
A U.N. convoy was hit four times Tuesday after entering the camp, but managed to deliver its cargo of food and other relief supplies, a U.N. official said.
Lebanese politicians say the number of armed extremists has been growing inside the camps, which are crowded warrens of two- and three-story homes and shops.
The outbreak of fighting in the north presented a further challenge to Lebanon's Western-backed government, which is struggling to come to terms with the armed Shiite Hezbollah movement, a political stalemate in the capital and repeated bombings there.
Lebanon has asked the United States for $280 million in military assistance to help fight Fatah al-Islam, the Associated Press reported from Washington.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said about $220 million would go to the Lebanese armed forces and $60 million to security forces. He said U.S. officials are weighing the request, which would represent a significant increase over previous years.
McCormack said $40 million in equipment and training was sent in 2006 and about $5 million is earmarked for the current year.
Knickmeyer reported from Beirut.
