Word: sunni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week after being flown in for treatment, a prominent Sunni Moslem leader from Lebanon and his wife are recovering in Harvard-affiliated hospitals from injuries sustained in a car bombing...
Saad, leader of Sidon's Sunni Moslem majority and an outspoken critic of Israeli presence in Southern Lebanon, remains in guarded condition in the intensive care unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. Saad is conscious and "has made good progress over the last two or three days," said a hospital spokesman...
Whether or not that is so, the Shi'ite attitude toward their fellow Lebanese has hardened. One of the dangers of the Israeli withdrawal is that it could lead to a bitter struggle between the Shi'ite majority and the Sunni Muslim and Christian minorities, not to mention the remaining Palestinian civilian population. In recent weeks, Shi'ite radicals have killed more than a dozen southern Lebanese as alleged collaborators with the Israelis. The Israeli pullback could spark a bloodier and more widespread settling of Lebanese scores. Precisely such an explosion took place between Lebanon's Christian and Druze militias...
...early test of southern Lebanon's stability could come in the city of Sidon (pop. 200,000), one of the first sites to be abandoned by the Israelis in the withdrawal. Sidon's population is preponderantly Sunni Muslim. To the north, the city is flanked by Christian hillside communities, to the south by Shi'ites. Almost in the center of Sidon lies the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el Helweh, with 40,000 inhabitants...
...July 4. In the four hours of fighting that followed, the largely Christian Fifth Brigade in the east traded fire with the mostly Muslim Sixth Brigade in the west. Five people were wounded. The event revived fears that the army is dangerously divided along religious lines. Said a prominent Sunni Muslim politician: "If the army cannot control Beirut, what hope is there that it can control the rest of the country...