In the latest instance of the unrest in Syria spilling across the border into Lebanon, deadly clashes broke out in Beirut on Monday following the shooting death of two anti-Assad clerics at the hands of soldiers.
Two people were killed and 18 wounded in the Lebanese capital early Monday as clashes flared between rival political parties - one supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the other opposing him - the country's National News Agency said.
The violence followed the killings just hours earlier of two anti-Assad clerics who were shot at a military checkpoint in northern Lebanon.
The histories of Lebanon and Syria have long been intertwined.
Syrian troops were deployed in Lebanon between 1976 and 2005, primarily in the north. They were initially called in to help stop a brewing civil war, but maintained their significant presence, which once numbered 40,000, long afterward.
In a country struggling to maintain a delicate balance among its religious and ethnic sects, resentment from the occupation lingers.
Some Sunni Muslims are staunchly anti-Assad and sympathize with the Sunni-led uprising in Syria calling for his ouster. Support for Assad is also plentiful, particularly in the south.
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Sounds like where America may be heading if we don't realize we (whites) are mutations.
The Lebanese are a hot blooded people and will certainly retaliate in kind for their clerics deaths being done on their Lemanese soil.There's not a friendly neighborhood coexistance,its more in the old HATFIELDS AND McCOYS family sguabbles of years ago here stateside.Definitly a no win situation here and its been historically recorded as far back as time recorded of raids or wars between these hateful two....
the people fighting against each other are narrow minded, brainwashed, uneducated people driven by religion and hateful non sense thoughts planted by their clerics and leaders. It's just sad to witness this whole turmoil happening in front of our eyes without being able to do anything about it. I mean what could "the normal lebanese" do? talking to these kind of people is certainly not gonna help and fighting with them is just gonna shed more blood and drag the country further down into that dark hole its heading to... all we can do is stick together and never take sides and just wait this one out until it calms back down like many other clashes have did before.
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