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Jun 19, ’06
11:14 PM
It ain’t Camp Gitchy Gloomy
Jun 19, ’06
7:24 AM
Official VM buddy Mitch Prothero has an article on the meanest Palestinian camp in Lebanon in this week’s U.S. News and World Report.
In any Palestinian camp or neighborhood, the walls are adorned with posters depicting “martyrs” of the fight against Israel. But in Asbat’s neighborhood, the Iraq battlefield is evident: The main road has been renamed “Martyrs of Fallujah,” and the signs glorify men killed fighting alongside Zarqawi or in suicide attacks against U.S. troops or Iraqi Shiite Muslims.
No word on why Lebanon never tried to assimilate the refugees into its population, of course. Read more.
