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Syrian violence spills
over into Lebanon

Fighting breaks out
after three killed in
Syria last week
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) -
The families of Lebanese men
killed in Syria last week say their
relatives were more interested in
nice clothes and vacations than
fighting a civil war. Yet Syrian
President Bashar Assad's regime
branded them foreign jihadists -
and their deaths set off three days
of new spillover violence.
Gunmen loyal to opposite
sides in Syria's civil war battled
Wednesday in the streets of the
Lebanese city of Tripoli. The
fighting has killed six people and
wounded nearly 60 since Mon-
day, security officials said.
The bloodshed is a sign of
just how vulnerable Lebanon is
to getting sucked into the Syr-
ian crisis. The countries share a
porous border and a complex web
of political and sectarian ties that
is easily enflamed.
Among the 17 Lebanese men
who turned up dead in Syria last
week were Bilal al-Ghoul and
his childhood friend, Malek Haj
Deeb, both 20. Malek's older
brother, Jihad, said the two men
sympathized with the rebellion,
but they were not fighters.
"Malek used to see the vid-
eos of dead Syrians and cry,"
Jihad Haj Deeb told The Associ-
ated Press in Tripoli, as gunfire
and explosions echoed near his
home in the poor neighborhood
of Mankoubeen. "He used to say,
'May Bashar fall soon, God will-
ing.'
A giant poster hung in the
entrance of the home, with pho-
tos of three of those killed in
Syria and a sign that read: "Our
dead are in heaven, and yours are
in hell."
Haj Deeb and Bilal al-Ghoul's
older brother, Omar, said the men
must have been kidnapped and
handed over to Syrian authorities
by a pro-Syrian Lebanese group.
They said their brothers were
not members of any political or
Islamic group but were observant
Muslims.
"My brother doesn't know how
to hold a rifle," Haj Deeb said.

The Lebanese men killed in
Syria were Sunni Muslims, like
the majority of rebels trying to
overthrow Assad's regime. Assad
and much of his inner circle
belong to the Alawite sect, which
is an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
The fighting in Lebanon comes
at a time of deep uncertainty in
Syria, with rebels battling gov-
ernment troops near Assad's seat
of power in Damascus.
In Brussels, U.S. Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clin-
ton reiterated concerns that "an
increasingly desperate Assad
regime might turn to chemical
weapons" or lose control of them
to militantgroups.
She also said NATO's decision
on Tuesday to send Patriot mis-
siles toTurkey's southern border
with Syria sends a message that
Ankarais backed by its allies. The
missiles are intended only for
defensive purposes, she said.
Turkish Foreign Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted
Wednesday in the Turkish news-
paper Sabah as saying that Syria
has about 700 missiles, some of
them long-range.
Syria has been careful not to
confirm it has chemical weapons,
while insisting it would never use
such weapons against its own
people.
But as the regime wobbles,
there are fears the crisis will
keep spiraling outside its borders.
Fighting has spilled over into
Turkey, Jordan and Israel since
the uprising began more than 20
months ago, but Lebanon is par-
ticularly susceptible.
Seventeen times bigger than
Lebanon and four times more
populous, Syria has long had
powerful allies there, including
the Iran-backed militant group
Hezbollah. For much of the past
30 years, Lebanese have lived
under Syrian military and politi-
cal domination.
That grip began to slip in
2005, when former Prime Min-
ister Rafik Hariri was assassi-
nated in Beirut. Widely accused
of involveisent -something it
has always denied - Syria was
forced to withdraw its troops. But
Damascus has maintained power
and influence in Lebanon.
Syria's state-run news agency,

SANA, reported that 17 Leba-
nese "gunmen" were killed inside
Syria last week, and on Sunday,
Syrian TV aired footage of the
dead.
Bassam al-Dada, a political
adviser for the rebel Free Syr-
ian Army, said the group believes
the Lebanese men were the vic-
tims of a "complicated Syrian
intelligence operation" aimed at
showing that foreign fighters are
involved in fighting in Syria.
According to their relatives,
Malek Haj Deeb and Bilal al-
Ghoul left their parents' homes a
week ago saying they were going
to downtown Tripoli. Hourslater,
the families grew concerned and
started calling the men's mobile
phones.
There was no sign of them
until two days later, when local
media reported that a group of
Lebanese citizens hadbeen killed
while fighting in Syria.
Pictures of the men, shown to
the AP by their families, showed
them clean-shaven and playing
in the snow in one of Lebanon's
mountain towns, and in front of
Tripoli's Crusader-built citadel.
"We want their bodies back,"
Omar al-Ghoul said.
On Wednesday, Syrian Ambas-
sador Ali Abdul-Karim Ali told
Lebanese Foreign Minister
Adnan Mansour that Damascus
has agreed to repatriate the men's
bodies. Lebanon's National News
Agency said the countries would
soon discuss how to hand them
over.
Members of the International
Committee of the Red Cross vis-
ited the dead men's families on
Tuesday and took details about
the men, their brothers said.
Jihad Haj Deeb said his broth-
er was about to resume his col-
lege studies and would not have
jeopardized his future to fight in
Syria.
"He registered at the universi-
ty four days before he went miss-
ing," Haj Deeb said, adding that
his brother took 500,000 pounds
($335) from their father to pay
his tuition at Lebanese Univer-
sity, where he was a third-year
mathematics student. Haj Deeb's
father, a school bus driver, makes
$400 a month and has nine other
children.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a meeting of Palestinian leadership Saturday at his compound in the
West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas has vowed to stop Israel from building new settlements in east Jerusalem.
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positions Wednesday over a con-
tentious new settlement push
around Jerusalem, with Israel
going full throttle on plans to
develop the area and the Palestin-
ians trying to block it through an
appeal to the U.N. Security Coun-
cil.
The settlement push - Israel's
retaliation for the Palestinians'
success in winning U.N. recog-
nition of a de facto state - has
touched off an escalating inter-
national showdown. Palestinians
claim the construction would deal
a death blow to Mideast peace
hopes. Even Israel's staunchest
allies have been outraged by the
move, feeding speculation they
might squeeze Israel more than
usual to back down on its con-
struction plans.
The U.N. move came last week,
with the General Assembly recog-
nizing a Palestinian state in the
West Bank, east Jerusalem and
Gaza Strip - territories captured
by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.
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its 1967 lines, says borders with
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ough the Israelis say con- Jerusalem-area plans.
on could be years away, the Palestinian President Mah-
tent plans have sent a mes- moud Abbas said he was deter-
at within these U.N.-rec- mined to block the settlement
d borders, Israel remains building near Jerusalem with all
control. The plans include legal and diplomatic means.
new settler homes in the "The settlement plans that
Bank and east Jerusalem, Israel announced, especially E-1,
entions to press ahead with are a red line," Abbas told report-
ther projects that would ers. "This must not happen."
wedge between east Jeru- The Palestinian representative
the Palestinians' desired to the United Nations said in let-
and its West Bank hinter- ters to the council, the General
Assembly and the secretary-gen-
rnational condemnation eral that the intensification of the
arsher than usual, with Israeli campaign is clearly part of
f Israel's closest European "Israel's contemptuous response"
including Italy and the to the assembly's overwhelming
an Union on Wednesday, vote last week to recognize the
in Israeli ambassadors for state of Palestine.
s or issuing especially stern "Israel is methodically and
m. The issue was expected aggressively pushing ahead with
sigh on Germany's agenda this unlawful land grab and col-
a visit to Berlin by Israeli onization of Palestine with the
Minister Benjamin Netan- intent to alter the demographic
composition, character and sta-
ad of his arrival, Israel tus of the Palestinian territory,
d no signs of bending, hold- especially in and around East
reliminary planning meet- Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley,
a new development in a in its favor in order to entrench
of the West Bank outside its illegitimate control of the
lem. The project, known land and prejudge the outcome
its Israeli administrative of final status negotiations," the
E-1," is the mostcontentious letter said.
new settlement projects ~U,$,State Depart al sp kes-
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Palestinians said they Palestinians for "unhelpful rheto-
leverage their newfound ric" by talking about taking the
tatus to seek a Security Israelis to the Security Council as
i resolution to halt the well as to the International Crimi-
nal Court over the settlements.
"Ultimately, both sides need to
get back into direct negotiations,"
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