"..Lebanese intelligence said it has strong suspicions jihadis are coming to Lebanon with plans to take on Hizbullah.."

"Thousands of foreign fighters are streaming back from Iraq to places as far-flung as London and Lebanon. What happens when the jihadis come marching home?" Andrew Exum in Democracy, here

".........based in Beirut, who is convinced the country is about to become the focus of serious jihadi activity in the near future. Of course, returning jihadis have already made their presence felt last in Nahr el Bared camp. However, Londonstani's friend mentioned today that Lebanese intelligence has said it has strong suspicions jihadis are coming to Lebanon with plans to take on Hizbullah." (Abu Muqawama.. former lair of Andrew Exum..)

"....The fighters of Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon, many of whom had combat experience in Iraq, treated both the local authorities in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared and the Lebanese state with disdain during the battles there last year...

....Indeed, these new, transnational cadres are in many ways more dangerous than local actors like Hezbollah or Hamas. Both Hezbollah and Hamas draw their legitimacy from the support of their local constituencies. But the rootless returnees are not responsible to any local constituency and thus have no "red lines" they won’t cross. They answer to no one but their pan-Islamic visions. Local authorities have negligible sway over their behavior. Thus, as militants filter back home, more violent clashes between Islamist militants and Arab states outside Iraq are almost inevitable–and many of these states will be fragile nations allied with the United States...."

And in Al Balad, "Another attack on Lebanese Army units in Ain El Helweh... ", the 4th in less than two weeks...