Communicating Arts - Main Web SiteFrom The Daily Star, Lebanon, "Foreigners brace themselves as army forges into Nahr al-Bared: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=82702.
From Al Jazeera, "Shelling Resumes at Lebanon Camp": http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8BEC166E-EBAE-4AB2-B798-B017B463B229.htm
Electronic Lebanon--Action and Activism, "Aid for Nahr al-Bared": http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6949.shtml. Of special note from this news outlet, and reported by Marcy Newman: "Not only did they escape Fatah al-Islam sniper fire and the Lebanese army's heavy artillery shelling, they also encountered a third group along the way, a militia group they identified as a local, Tripoli Sunni group which seems to have been operating inside Nahr al-Bared camp as well.
"The road to Nahr al-Bared was a difficult one. For those who traveled on busses to Badawi camp they found their children taken off and assassinated by this militia group."
I have not corroborated Newman's reporting. Usually, if I'm coordinating an online set of articles, I'll let veracity rest on the reputation of the publisher, but as that last sentence would seem particularly inflammatory, I'll be on the lookout for more on the incident (or in touch with the reporter).
Scott MacLeod's Time blog entry on Nahr al-Bared: http://time-blog.com/middle_east/2007/06/the_battle_for_nahr_albared.html. In this interview, Prime Minister Faud Siniora says, "This is a group of people who came into Lebanon, assembled in Lebanon, and acquired the name Fatah al-Islam. They are completely innocent of these two names. They have nothing to do with Islam and nothing to do with Palestine."
I'm going to sign off before midnight, U. S. Eastern Standard Time and fall to sleep while the Lebanese Army moves into Nahr al-Bared. I haven't yet run across a second mention of the bus incident. To be fair, however, there's much to review in the practice of secondary journalism. If you read it on my page, and I read it on somebody else's page, what, really, do we know with certainty as regards merely the facts of the story?
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