Islamist militia Fatah al-Islam has claimed responsibility for the blast that killed one soldier at an army intelligence post in north Lebanon Saturday, local Al Moustaqbal daily reported Tuesday.
"God almighty has enabled a group of our mujahideen (fighters) to start avenging the blood...shed during the assault by the Lebanese army against our people in Nahr al-Bared camp," a statement released by Fatah al-Islam was quoted as saying.
Fatah al-Islam, a Sunni fundamentalist militia that has found safe haven in Palestinian camps out of Lebanese authority control, fought a bloody battle for 15 weeks in 2007 with the Lebanese army in Nahr al-Bared Palestinian camp near the northern city of Tripoli.
The camp was completely destroyed during the fighting and most of the members of Fatah al-Islam were either killed or arrested by the Lebanese army except the leader of the group Shaker al-Abssi who managed to escape.
"Our mujahideen succeeded...in planting an explosive charge in a Lebanese army intelligence burrow in the town of Abdeh," the statement said.
It added that the charge was detonated by remote control and the explosion killed and wounded several people.
Hours after the Lebanese army soldier was killed on Saturday, a suicide bomber was shot dead outside the Palestinian camp of Ain el-Hilweh in the south.
Source:Xinhua
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