From The Australian:

PALESTINIANS who fled their refugee camp as Islamists battled the Lebanese army have described how foreign Arabs infiltrated their communities, at first claiming to be aligned to a recognised group.

From a squalid schoolyard inside a nearby camp, in which thousands of refugees are seeking shelter, three men told The Weekend Australian of a trojan horse operation they said was launched last November by Fatah al-Islam militants.

“They were Arabs from outside,” said Abu Ahmad, whose home in the Nahr al-Barad refugee camp was levelled on Monday by Lebanese army artillery shells.

“There were some Lebanese among them, but mostly they were Iraqis, Syrians, Moroccans, Algerians and even Turks.

“Of the 300 men they claimed to have, only about five were Palestinian. When they arrived last November, they said they were from Fatah al-Intifada” — the Syrian-aligned pro-Palestinian group that was instrumental in forcing former PLO leader Yassir Arafat to leave Lebanon in 1983.

“But one day earlier this year, they handed out leaflets and raised a flag above the mosque,” said a second man, who identified himself as Khalil.

“From that day they said they were Fatah al-Islam, and they threw the people out of the Fatah al-Intifada offices.”

The jihadi views of the interlopers quickly became obvious to many of Nahr al-Barad camp’s 31,000 residents. Their puritanical interpretation of the Koran and loathing of the Lebanese Government overshadowed their initial claims to be aligned to Palestinian refugee causes.

“At first there were only about 25 of them,” said Abu Ahmad. “They came in a trickle and kept to themselves. They were very polite and very respectful of the women and caring of children.

“But they would only ever smile to the men and say, ‘Peace be upon you’.”

By March this year, the strangers, often wearing Islamic gowns and Taliban-style headgear, could be seen walking freely around the camp carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles.

“By then, we knew their main cause was not Palestinian,” said a third man, Abu Mohammed. “But they were good to the families and they kept to themselves within three communities inside the camp. There was nothing we could do.”

Couldn’t this scenario happen in America? Or Europe? Hasn’t it already? The war is coming to our shores eventually, and when it does it will look a lot like what’s going on in Lebanon.

h/t Winds of Jihad