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...rhetorical battle took a turn for the worse on Thursday, when in a speech that was broadcast to the crowds in Beirut on giant projection screens, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah accused Siniora's government of collaborating with Israel to destroy Hizballah in this summer's war with the Jewish state, in part by trying to block supplies from reaching the battlefront of southern Lebanon. Siniora and his allies have responded by saying that Hizballah is acting on orders from Iran and Syria - from whom the group's military wing receives weapons and other aid - to destabilize Lebanon and mount...
...very different sentiment is aired nearby in the mainly Sunni district of Tarek Jdeide, where a group of laughing young men chant crude insults at Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's charismatic leader. "If the Shi'ites topple the government, Hizballah will take power and we will have a Shi'ite state, but we won't let that happen," says Yussef Beydoun, 21. "Tarek Jdeide will continue to be a citadel of resilience against the Shi'ites...
Whether Hizballah succeeds depends on how long it can capitalize on the p.r. boost it gained from waging war with Israel. Among Lebanon's downtrodden Shi'ites, Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah now enjoys mythical status. The many faces of Nasrallah appear everywhere. At times he is portrayed as a jolly preacher, a wise scholar or a glowering warrior with his turban like a black storm cloud overhead. When a starstruck woman requested the abaya, or robe, that he wore during the war, Nasrallah obliged, and since then TV crews have been following the woman across Lebanon as she displays...
...KILLED. Walid Hassan, 47, popular Iraqi comedian who managed to elicit laughs about the war with his darkly satirical weekly TV show Caricature, which mocked U.S. troops, Shi'ite militias, corrupt police officers and government chaos; by gunmen, as the Iraqi civilian death toll reached record highs; in Baghdad...
...Washash, few hopes remain for reversing what ethnic cleansing has already done to the neighborhood. Mansur and his neighbor Hassan Hussein, who are both Shi'ites, say they never imagined they would see a day when their neighbors would not only leave but go in fear. For many Iraqis, watching a family move is an experience as solemn as seeing a grave exhumed. "It's really painful to see families we've known for so long leave," says Hussein. "We would eat together. We would sit together. We played together as children. We felt very close." Mansur doubts things...