Trying to Cool Beirut's Sectarian Rage
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Lebanon's power brokers and their regional backers seem inclined to seek a compromise, but the passions stoked by their showdown may not be easily defused
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BEIRUT, Nov. 23 -- Allies of a slain Lebanese Christian minister Pierre Gemayel transformed his funeral into protest, pulpit and show of force Thursday, as tens of thousands surged into downtown Beirut to vent their anger against a Syrian government they blamed for his assassination and to press demands at the heart of a crisis as pronounced as any since the end of Lebanon's 15-year civil war....
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GENEVA, Nov 22 (IPS) - The assassination of Pierre Gemayel in Beirut on  Tuesday has interrupted an 18-month  relative safety for  anti-Syrian Lebanese politicians and intellectuals, and signals  the kick-off  of a series of events aiming at totally  destabilising the ailing national government and  dividing the  Christian community in the country -- and possibly plunging the  entire region  into chaos.
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As the Lebanese military battles Fatah al-Islam, a key question remains: What does the Sunni extremist faction want?
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BEIRUT -- The radical Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah and its allies escalated Lebanon's month-long political crisis into a popular confrontation yesterday, sending hundreds of thousands of its supporters into the streets of downtown Beirut.
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BEIRUT -- A racket filled the air outside Mohammed Jassar's shop in a swath of Beirut devastated in this summer's war with Israel. Hammers delivered a cadence to the clamor of bulldozers, saws and drills trying to rebuild. The noise was almost as loud as the invective these days in Lebanese...
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Hundreds of people protested British Prime Minister Tony Blair's arrival in Beirut on Monday, angry over his perceived backing of Israel's bombardment of Lebanon.
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BEIRUT, Dec. 4 -- The posters went up Monday morning, followed by slogans and chants. And within a day of his death in a street brawl along Beirut's increasingly tense fault lines of sect and politics, Ahmed Mahmoud became the first symbol of the mass demonstrations by Hezbollah and its allies meant...
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LebanonÂs seeming slide toward civil conflict is a flashpoint for tensions in the Middle East.
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Violent clashes broke out Sunday between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in the capital, leaving one man dead from gunshot wounds and 21 others injured at a time when tensions throughout Lebanon threaten the country's fragile sectarian and political balance.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon  -- An explosion apparently targeting a police official rocked a Christian neighborhood of Beirut on Friday, killing at least six people and setting several vehicles ablaze, local media reported.
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Attacks on Pakistan's Shiites echo rising sectarian strife in the Mideast.
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BEIRUT, Feb. 14 -- The scenes have now become familiar in Beirut: tens of thousands waving the Lebanese flag, vows to neither surrender nor submit, speakers and protesters paying respects to dead they recognize as martyrs, pledging fealty to communal leaders and calling for national salvation on...
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A Lebanese Sunni preacher led thousands of anti-government Shi'ite demonstrators in prayers on Friday in a show of Muslim unity designed to dispel fears of sectarian strife.
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BEIRUT -- Troops in armored cars guarded Sunni Muslim neighborhoods in the capital yesterday after the shooting death of a young Shi'ite man. Shi'ite leaders urged the victim's family to avoid revenge, fearing sectarian violence that could detonate Lebanon's political crisis.
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Throngs of Lebanese came out Thursday for two opposing gatherings: Hezbollah backers for the funeral of a slain militant suspected in hundreds of American deaths, and their pro-Western opponents to mark the assassination of an anti-Syrian former prime minister.
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Deadly clashes erupted in Beirut on Sunday, leaving at least seven people dead and escalating Lebanonâs deepest political crisis since the end of its civil war in 1990.