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Clashes in Beirut between Opposition, Majority Supporters

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Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Clashes pitting followers of the opposition against supporters of the majority March 14 alliance broke out in Beirut late Tuesday ahead of a mass rally called by the government to commemorate the third anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Supporters of the Amal movement, headed by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, and members of MP Saad Hariri's al-Mustaqbal Movement threw stones at each other in the mixed Beirut neighborhood of Mazraa, an AFP correspondent witnessed. Shots were fired as the army deployed troops to prevent any escalation. Stones littered the street and the windshields of several cars were shattered. One motorbike was also set on fire. A security official said there were no casualties in the clashes. An official with the Amal movement played down the incident saying it was a settling of scores between rival gangs. Similar clashes in recent days between supporters of the government and the opposition have raised tensions in a country already embroiled in its worst political crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war. Fears of violence have mounted in the run-up to the mass rally called for Thursday to mark the February 14, 2005 assassination of Hariri. Lebanon has also been without a president since November, when pro-Syrian Emile Lahoud stepped down at the end of his term of office with no successor in place amid deadlock between the anti-Syrian government and the pro-Syrian opposition.(AFP-Naharnet)

 

 

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