[Guardian-UK] Ian Black - Both the Lebanese government and the main Palestinian factions see the fighting as a crude attempt to prove that the Lebanese will have to pay the price if Syria is put under pressure. Sultan Abu al-Aynan, the Fatah leader in Lebanon, had no hesitation in condemning Fatah al-Islam as a "gang of criminals" answering to an "external agenda." The clashes were linked to the expected ratification in the UN Security Council of an international tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
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