Refugee rappers voice disgust at Lebanon camps
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"Battalion 5" might conjure up images of the next big computer game, but in Lebanon it's a group of musicians who express the misery of life in Palestinian refugee camps through rap.
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BEIRUT -- More than 150 civilians fled from a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon yesterday as soldiers ringing the neighborhood moved up tanks and armored vehicles for a possible showdown with Islamic militants barricaded inside.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops bombarded a Palestinian refugee camp with tank and artillery shells on Wednesday, trying to force al Qaeda-inspired militants ensnared in the camp to surrender.
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BEDAWI REFUGEE CAMP, Lebanon -- Over the years, the tents have come down and concrete apartment blocks have gone up on this hillside overlooking the Mediterranean.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Heavy fighting raged on Tuesday between Lebanese troops and al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp, the battleground for Lebanon's bloodiest internal violence since the civil war.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops fired at positions of al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Friday with the heaviest shelling in 13 days of fighting.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 4 -- Islamic radicals clashed with  Lebanon's army at a second Palestinian refugee camp on Sunday and Monday, killing two Lebanese soldiers, sending residents fleeing through gun and rocket fire and heightening fears that the country faces a gravely destabilizing offensive b...
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Men driving donkey carts to the market and refugees crouching in the shade finally have something to break the boredom of life in this arid Darfur border village &#151; news, hip-hop and Arabic music coming in on cranky transistor radios.
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Dozens of Palestinians detained while leaving a besieged refugee camp in Lebanon have complained of abuse by the Lebanese army, ranging from beatings to some cases of sexual abuse, human and civil rights activists say.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops pounded al Qaeda-inspired militants dug in at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday while the group showed no inclination to surrender.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Battles raged around a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday as Lebanese troops tightened the noose around al Qaeda-inspired militants holed up there.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops shelled al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday, almost three weeks after fighting broke out.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops pushed deeper into a Palestinian refugee camp on Monday, seeking to finish an eight-week confrontation with al Qaeda-inspired militants during which at least 225 people have been killed.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops pounded al Qaeda-inspired militants dug-in at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday after the gunmen refused demands they give themselves up.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops resumed their shelling on Tuesday of a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon where al Qaeda-inspired militants remained entrenched along with thousands of civilians.
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A gay rights group has complained that three singers whose lyrics suggest that homosexuals be hanged, drowned, burned or shot will be among those performing at a reggae festival Sunday in Newark.
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The music swelled, sounding the familiar first notes of the vintage charity hit "We Are the World." Then the lyrics kicked in &#151; a torrent of bad taste, ethnic slurs and cruel insults about the killer south Asia tsunami.