Lebanon in turmoil as Hezbollah seizes Beirut
                   
alarabiya.net     May 9, 2008            

Hezbollah fighters seized control of west Beirut on Friday after three days of street battles with pro-government rivals, pushing Lebanon dangerously close to all-out civil war. The sectarian fighting had eased by early afternoon and the army and police moved across areas now in the hands of [read full story]                

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