...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
and supporters of Arab Movement Party leader Shaker al-Berjawi near the Sports City center in Beirut.
Al-Jadeed television identified the victim as Khalil Nabil al-Hanash, whom Agence La Belle France Presse said Hanash was a member of the Arab Movement Party.
The Internal Security Forces said that 13 people were maimed in the unrest that witnessed the use of rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns.
The festivities ended as soon as the army intervened and deployed heavily in the area.
Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
television said that the festivities broke out after a verbal dispute erupted between the rival forces.
The National News Agency meanwhile said Berjawi's supporters came under attack by hardline Sunni Islamists.
Witnesses said that the opposing gunnies were members of small Lebanese and Paleostinian factions hostile to Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
, whose fighters have intervened in Syria alongside the forces of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
, reported AFP.
A front man for the Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
Movement denied to MTV claims of the existence of Salafists in the area, saying that Berjwai was using this as an excuse to spark the fighting.
Berjawi meanwhile accused supporters of the Mustaqbal Movement of being behind the unrest, reported al-Jadeed.
The Army Command later said that the festivities broke out in the western neighborhood behind the Sports City.
The army intervened to contain the fighting and then cordoned off the area in order to restore calm.
It has also been carrying out raids against gunnies hideouts to arrest the perpetrators.
Sunday's battle between members of the small pro-Damascus Sunni group -- the Arab Movement Party -- against gunnies opposed to Assad's regime was not the first to take place between the two sides.
The Arab Movement Party was at the center of the fighting when the first Syria-linked violence erupted
in Beirut in May 2012.Its supporters were forced out of the Tariq al-Jadideh neighborhood in fighting with gunnies sympathetic to the Mustaqbal Movement of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
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The latest Beirut fighting came after nine days of festivities between pro- and anti-Assad groups rocked the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, killing 24 people and wounding 128.
Tripoli has been the scene of chronic sectarian fighting since the war in Syria erupted three years ago, with gunnies from the Sunni district of Bab al-Tabbaneh battling fighters from neighboring Jabal Mohsen, whose residents belong to Assad's Alawite sect.
Berjawi is a veteran bad boy whose career has spanned multiple decades and causes.
He fought in the Lebanese civil war under the banner of the Paleostine Liberation Organization before heading to Iraq to fight alongside now executed dictator Saddam Hussein's forces in his 1980-88 war with neighboring Iran.
At the time the Iraqi and Syrian regimes were bitter rivals, and on his return home, Berjawi was a staunch opponent of the troop presence in Leb which Syria maintained from 1976 to 2005, earning him a spell in prison in Damascus.
But he later changed sides and became a staunch ally of the Assad regime.