Shi’ites control city
NZPA-AP Tyre One day after Israeli troops left the port city of Tyre, Shi’ite Muslim militiamen and a token force of Lebanese Army soldiers have taken control. In contrast to the final weeks of Israel’s occupation, which lasted 34 months when Tyre’s streets were virtually deserted, cars and trucks jammed the roads leading to Tyre. Not far south, fighters of the Shi’ite Amal organisation set up checkpoints out-
side the Rashidiyeh Palestinian refugee camp, a stronghold of the Palestine Liberation Organisation before Israel’s invasion in 1982. They said that they would disarm anyone who tried to take weapons into areas inhabited by Shi’ites, southern Lebanon’s largest religious group. “If the Palestinians try to establish a military presence we will prevent it,” said Daoud Daoud, the Amal commander in south Lebanon.
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