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| Lebanon camp siege head 'escaped' | Lebanon camp siege head 'escaped' |
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| DNA tests on a body earlier identified as the leader of militants in a refugee camp stormed by the Lebanese army have proved negative, authorities have said. | |
| Prosecutor-general Saeed Mirza said the tests countered the identification of Fatah al-Islam leader Sheikh Shaker al-Abssi's body by his wife last week. | Prosecutor-general Saeed Mirza said the tests countered the identification of Fatah al-Islam leader Sheikh Shaker al-Abssi's body by his wife last week. |
| Mr Mirza said he now believed Sheikh Abssi fled the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp a day before the army stormed it. | Mr Mirza said he now believed Sheikh Abssi fled the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp a day before the army stormed it. |
| More than 400 people died during the 105-day siege, half of them soldiers. | More than 400 people died during the 105-day siege, half of them soldiers. |
| The violence, which also caused more than 30,000 Palestinian refugees to flee the camp, was Lebanon's worst internal strife since the 1975-1991 civil war. | The violence, which also caused more than 30,000 Palestinian refugees to flee the camp, was Lebanon's worst internal strife since the 1975-1991 civil war. |
| 'Good condition' | |
| In a statement, Mr Mirza said the DNA of the body being stored at the Tripoli Governmental Hospital did not match that of Abssi's children or brother. | |
| He then revealed that a captured Yemeni militant had told police that he had escaped Nahr al-Bared on 1 September with Abssi and several others. | |
| "Shaker al-Abssi was in good condition and was wearing a suicide belt and carrying a Kalashnikov rifle, magazines and hand grenades," the statement quoted the Yemeni as saying. | |
| A well-known Palestinian militant, Abssi was sentenced to death in absentia in Jordan for killing a US diplomat, Laurence Foley, in Amman in 2002. | |
| He was later jailed in Syria before he set up Fatah al-Islam in Nahr al-Bared last year. |