Lebanese Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman said Monday that the victory in defeating the Fatah al- Islam terrorists "belongs to the whole Lebanese people," local Naharnet news website reported.
The victory, achieved Sunday, is a "gift to the spirits of the army and resistance martyrs," Suleiman was quoted as saying.
It is also a gift to troops wounded in action as well as "to all the Lebanese and Palestinian brethren who rejected the phenomenon of terrorism and stood by our side throughout the confrontation," he added.
The army commander also held that sacrifices made in the confrontation that broke out on May 20 "remain much less than the price that the nation would have paid had the hand of terror remained loose."
Meanwhile, he urged his troops to "keep the rifle aimed in the proper direction at the Israeli enemy and at terror."
On Sunday, the Lebanese army totally took control of Nahr al- Bared camp, some 12 km north of Tripoli city in northern Lebanon, after fighting the Fatah al-Islam militants holed up there for over three months.
It was the bloodiest internal violence since the Lebanese 1975- 1990 civil war, and up to 300 people including more than 150 army soldiers had been killed during the fighting.
Source: Xinhua
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