By Harry de Quetteville in Shatila camp, Beirut
25 May 2007
Islamic militants besieged inside a refugee camp in Lebanon will fight "to the last drop of blood", supporters of their leader said yesterday.
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Al-Absi, a 52-year-old jet pilot turned Islamic extremist, has rallied a band of self-proclaimed jihadis from across the Arab world after arriving in Lebanon shortly before the cross-border battles with Israel last summer.
Ibrahim abu Mohamed, who remembers meeting al-Absi, said in a Beirut room festooned with Palestinian flags: "They will fight to the last drop of blood. They are religious people who love to be martyrs for Islam. They want to meet God."
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"We want to liberate Holy ground beginning with Lebanon and ending with Jerusalem," Abu Salim Taha, one of its fighters, said yesterday from inside Nahr al-Bared.
"We want Sharia law not atheist law. Every land Islam has entered must return to Muslim hands."
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More on "religious people who love to be martyrs for islam" at "The Telegraph" UK
