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...that the country's intelligence services aren't what they used to be. The former head of General Security, Jamil Sayed (who was also the former head of the film board) is currently in prison under suspicion for involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. And since the Syrian withdrawal, local audiences have seen such racy fare as Brokeback Mountain and Munich, Stephen Spielberg's drama about Israel's campaign to avenge athletes slain by Palestinian terrorists at the 1976 Olympics. Lebanese cinema-goers are also now more likely to see the spicy bits usually excised...
...what the U.S. wants. That would include blocking Syria's border with Iraq so insurgents do not cross into Iraq to kill U.S. troops; ending funding of Hizballah and interference in Lebanese politics; and cooperating with the U.N. in the investigation of the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Senior Syrian government officials are considered prime suspects in Hariri case...
...problem is that Hizballah is also fighting for its survival and unlikely to back down. The group's patron, Syria, is on the run from a U.N. investigation that has implicated the Assad regime in the car bomb assassination last year of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, an event that led to the end of Syria's occupation of Lebanon. Moreover, U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the summer war with Israel, also placed thousands of new U.N. soldiers in southern Lebanon, which had been uncontested Hizballah territory since the group drove Israel out in 2000. "Both sides...
...Local residents say he was killed by fellow Shi'ites who had been rampaging through the district. "I think they shot him because they thought he was a Sunni," says Mustafa Jaroushi, 21. But the Shi'ites of the nearby district of Shiyah blame Hariri's Sunni supporters for Mahmoud's death, saying residents of Tarek Jdeide threw stones and fired shots at them as they passed the neighborhood on their way home from...
...Sunni-Shi'ite battle is also being fought out on the airwaves, where the Hariri-owned Future TV and Hizballah's Al-Manar network have been accusing their sectarian rivals of stoking the conflict. A key Sunni cleric, Sheikh Ali al-Jozo, the mufti of Mount Lebanon, has repeatedly attacked Hizballah, describing Nasrallah as a "dictator" and accusing him of advancing a foreign, Syrian-Iranian agenda...