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Default Re: Violence escalates between Sunni and Shia in Beirut

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Originally Posted by Kadhim View Post
I think people need to calm down and do some serious sanity check reflection on the situation. Hezballah has been pretty consistent in the padt years in being a leading force to resist efforts to spin Western-led provocations like assassinations, etc. into destablilization. So suggestions that this turmoil was about Hezballah trying to destabilize Lebanon or selfishly seize power unprovoked should be looked at with a critical eye.

My understanding is that the situation was as follows. Up until the past weeks, serious discussions were taking place, with some considerable success, to determine a peaceful way to fairly share power in Lebanon. Then, a few weeks ago, Saad Hariri returned from several months in Saudi Arabia (where, presumably, he got his latest orders from **** Cheney, who was in Saudi on an overlapping visit). Suddenly, the tone changed 180 degrees and Siniora and the government turned very agressively against Hezbollah. A Hezbollah official at the airport was fired on some lame excuse and orders were made to shut down the Hezbollah TV station. Militias representing Hariri were out in the streets first, and attacked Hezballah and Amal. Apparently Hezbollah then seized these men and turned them over to the army. The Hariri gangs were part of the reason behind the seizure of the Hariri station.
The army pressured the government to back down, and the situation has cooled.

This incident should be understood properly in the context of perennial efforts by the US, Britain, and Israel to stir up trouble in Lebanon and the middle east in general.
In particular, it is linked as well to larger ambitions by the British and American neo-cons to launch war against Syria and Iran.
There's a problem with this logic.

Its based on the assumption that a strong pro-Iranian militia group = good for Sunni's.

Can you prove thats the case ?
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