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Lebanon: A Mood Shift Among the Sunnis

Oct 30, 2012 | 10:00 GMT

Lebanon: A Mood Shift Among the Sunnis
Lebanese soldiers drive by a portrait of assassinated official Wissam al-Hassan during a patrol in the Corniche al-Mazraa neighborhood of Beirut

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Summary

A tenuous calm has prevailed in Lebanon since the Oct. 19 assassination of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan. However, a closer look at the activities of Lebanon's radical Sunni Islamist groups and Shiite militant organization Hezbollah reveals that this could simply be the calm before the storm.

More Lebanese Sunnis are looking to radical Islamist groups amid domestic tensions and continued violence in Syria....

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