Fuad Siniora

    Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora vowed in an address to the nation on Thursday that his government would uproot Islamic militants battling the army in a Palestinian refugee camp. "We will work to root out and strike at terrorism, but we will embrace and protect our brothers in the camps," Siniora said in a televised speech, insisting Lebanon has no quarrel with the 400,000 Palestinian refugees who live in the country. Siniora said the Fatah al-Islam militant group holed up in the camp was a terrorist organization that claims to be Islamic and to defend Palestine and was attempting to ride on the suffering and the struggle of the Palestinian people.(12,31)