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| One Killed, Three Wounded in Shiite-Sunni Confrontations in Beirut |
| 2006-12-03 |
| A young man was killed and three other people were wounded Sunday in two separate street fights in Beirut between opposition and government supporters, as army troops and security forces were swiftly beefed up to prevent further escalation. Security sources identified the killed man as Ali Ahmed Mahmoud, a 20-year-old Shiite, who died of his wounds. They said four other people were wounded in the clashes which took place in the densely-populated Tarik Jedideh neighborhood and on the Badaro-Qasqas highway. Shiite supporters from the southern suburbs trying to infiltrate into Tarik Jedideh, a low-income predominantly Sunni quarter, clashed with pro-government supporters with stones, sticks and knives, witnesses told Naharnet. They said sporadic bursts of automatic gunfire could be heard in the confrontation which lasted about 45 minutes before army troops and police patrols stepped in to disengage the opponents. The army threw a security dragnet in Tarik Jedideh in an effort to prevent followers of the pro-Syrian Hizbullah and Amal movement from stirring trouble in the Sunni neighborhood. Another confrontation was reported on the Badaro-Qasqas highway between supporters of Hizbullah and Amal on the one side, and others from the Lebanese Forces, the Christian faction led by Samir Geagea. Meanwhile, opposition leader of the minority Druze Lebanese Democratic Party violently challenged Prime Minister Fouad Saniora's government. "I promise you that this government will fall under the boots of the patriotic Lebanese people," said Talal Arslan, a staunch foe of anti-Syrian Druze chieftain Walid Jumblat. Beirut, 03 Dec 06, 20:16 |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #1 Memo to myself. Lay in a stock of wasabi. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-12-03 22:17 |