Smoke billows from heavy shelling in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon Saturday, June 2, 2007. The Lebanese army pressed ahead with an offensive to uproot al-Qaida inspired militants, pounding their hideouts in Nahr el-Bared with artillery, a day after sending tanks and armored vehicles to seize positions in the camp's outer neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Battle Rages in Lebanon Refugee Camp
(AP/Newsvine) The Lebanese air force on Saturday joined tanks and artillery in pounding Islamic militant hideouts on the second day of an intensifying offensive to uproot al-Qaida-inspired gunmen barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp.
A French-made Gazelle helicopter fired two missiles and directed machine gun fire at suspected militant hideouts on the western edge of the Noah el-Bared camp near the Mediterranean coastline, in an apparent attempt to block any sea escape route.
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