Sumanadevii
05-09-2008, 06:15 AM
Odin, one of our posters, is from Beirut...There is fear of a civil war ...Please keep him in your thoughts..
[QUOTE]BEIRUT, Lebanon - Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shiite opposition gunmen seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday. Eleven people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in three days of street battles, security officials said.
In a sign of the collapse of the pro-government forces in the face of the onslaught by the Shiite Hezbollah and Amal groups in the Lebanese capital's Muslim sector, the TV station of top Sunni politician Saad Hariri's Future Movement went off the air and the offices of its affiliated al-Mustaqbal newspaper on the edge of the city was set afire by opposition gunmen, according to TV footage and Hezbollah.
Lebanese troops were evacuating the staff of the TV station's terrestrial and satellite studios in the Kantari area of western Beirut, said Nadim Mounla, the station's chief. He said gunmen massed near the station and "asked through the army to close down or it will be destroyed."[QUOTE]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24534124
[QUOTE]BEIRUT, Lebanon - Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shiite opposition gunmen seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday. Eleven people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in three days of street battles, security officials said.
In a sign of the collapse of the pro-government forces in the face of the onslaught by the Shiite Hezbollah and Amal groups in the Lebanese capital's Muslim sector, the TV station of top Sunni politician Saad Hariri's Future Movement went off the air and the offices of its affiliated al-Mustaqbal newspaper on the edge of the city was set afire by opposition gunmen, according to TV footage and Hezbollah.
Lebanese troops were evacuating the staff of the TV station's terrestrial and satellite studios in the Kantari area of western Beirut, said Nadim Mounla, the station's chief. He said gunmen massed near the station and "asked through the army to close down or it will be destroyed."[QUOTE]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24534124