Lebanese army lays siege around Palestinian camp

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

TRIPOLI, Lebanon -- Lebanese troops tightened a siege of a Palestinian refugee camp Monday where a shadowy group suspected of ties to al-Qaida is holed up -- pounding the camp with artillery a day after the worst eruption of violence since the end of the country's civil war.

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