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...serve as a model for Lebanon, where parties are often feudal arrangements of patrons and clients, based on ethnic or religious affiliations. The first drive had been held in Achrafiyeh, Beirut's most upscale Christian neighborhood. Holding the second in the Bekaa would allow us to reach more Sunni, Shia, and Druze Lebanese-Americans - a chance to demonstrate one of the American ideals I love most: that our diversity is our strength, and that we value all citizens, regardless of race or religion. Those ideals, of course, often aren't honored; the most recent instance of that, in my mind...
...Hizballah's key patrons, it's difficult to describe Iran as neutral in the unfolding conflict. Since the Ayatollah Khomeini launched Hizballah in the early eighties to spread Shia revolution, Western officials say Iran has kept contingents of Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon, the most strategic area outside its own borders where Tehran can exercise influence. Western diplomatic estimates of how many are there and where exactly they are vary, but several hundred Revolutionary Guards are believed to operate in the Hizballah-controlled Beqaa Valley, providing operational training to the movement's guerilla forces. For its part, Iran insists...
VALI NASR Author of the forthcoming book The Shia Revival and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations...
...evening, as Baghdad residents absorbed the enormity of the tragedy, the sectarian sensibilities faded as many began to blame the Shia-dominated Iraqi government for failing to anticipate the numbers of pilgrims and provide for adequate security and crowd-control. "Everybody knew there would be more than a million people crossing the bridge today," said Sami Hilli, a Shia Baghdad resident. "Why were there not enough policemen here, to organize the traffic...
...Sunni political groups-some of whom were planning a demonstration to protest the killing of 36 Sunnis last week-responded to today's tragedy with a show of solidarity with the Shia. Even the radical Association of Muslim Scholars, which represents over 3,000 Sunni imams, expressed sympathy and offered help...