Wanted Fatah al-Islam Militant Arrested
Police have arrested a Fatah al-Islam member who had engaged in fighting with Internal Security Forces in the northern port city of Tripoli in 2007, al-Liwaa daily reported Tuesday.
Security sources told the newspaper that police raided a house near the town of Jiyyeh and arrested Ahmed Ghosh known as Merjan.
Police seized 40 Kalashnikov rifles, two M-16s, four handguns and B-7 rocket launchers from the house, the sources said.
Ghosh, according to al-Liwaa, was the leader of the network that clashed with ISF in Tripoli”s Miatain street following the army”s offensive on Fatah al-Islam in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in May 2007.