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Hussein Malla / AP
A Sunni gunman fires during clashes, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on May 14. Street battles pitting Lebanese Sunnis who generally support the Syrian uprising, against Alawite supporters of Assad's regime killed at least one person Monday, raising the death toll to four since Sunday. The clashes began Sunday after authorities detained an anti-Syrian Lebanese national.
Hussein Malla / AP
A Lebanese Sunni family run between white tarps hung to provide cover from snipers as they flee their house during clashes, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on May 14.
Reuters reports -- Two men were killed and at least 20 people were wounded in clashes between Alawite supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Sunni Muslims in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, medical sources said on Monday.
Fierce clashes overnight shook the northern port city and sporadic fighting continued on Monday. Machineguns and rocket propelled grenades were used.
Tension between the Alawite and Sunni communities in Tripoli has been fuelled by the unrest in neighboring Syria, where Assad is seeking to crush a 14-month-old uprising which began with largely peaceful protests against his rule but has become increasingly militarized.
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A Sunni Muslim gunman carries a machinegun during clashes at the Sunni Muslim Bab al-Tebbaneh neighbourhood in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, on May 14. Two men were killed and at least 20 were wounded in clashes between Alawite supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Sunni Muslim fighters in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, medical sources said on Monday. Fierce clashes overnight shook the northern port city and sporadic fighting continued on Monday morning, with fighters firing machineguns and rocket propelled grenades.
Reuters
A Sunni Muslim gunman fires his rifle as others help an injured colleague during clashes at the Sunni Muslim Bab al-Tebbaneh neighborhood in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, on May 14. Two men were killed and at least 20 people were wounded in clashes between Alawite supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Sunni Muslims in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, medical sources said on Monday. Fierce clashes overnight shook the northern port city and sporadic fighting continued on Monday. Machineguns and rocket propelled grenades were used.
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...why is the Obama administration so quiet about this conflict?...during Egypt/Algeria/Libya, we couldn't hear anything but how we were leading from behind...
That's because Obama is too focused on getting re elected. It's called the me me factor.
His laser is focused on the economy. When it is dead he will focus the laser some where else. Like our allies.
Hezbollah is in a pickel. No where to turn. They are funded by Shiites. Are they now going to attack Shiites. This is a good thing. Israel should be celabrating.
I guess the people that live in Syria and Tripoli are not human enough to justify another humanitarian mission. Besides, there is no oil supply to Europe at stake.
It's really a matter of what will happen in the aftermath. There are very large overtones of a "brotherhood" emergence in the Syrian uprising. I am certain that sectarianism will lead to more strife if there were an elected govenrment in Syria. Egypt is now charging down the path of Islamicization. Syria will almost certainly follow.
Besides, who needs another proxy war between the US and Russia. It will truly become another vietnam, or worse.
Pic number three must be a new kind of machine gun! Poor report!
LOL!! You beat me to it. Can you imagine automatic RPG fire?
Allen you got the coment in before I could. You would think that a reporter covering ME would know the difference between a muchine gun and and RPG. I also love it when they put up pics of APC or an IFV and call them tanks. Apperently in thier world if it has tracks and is militery vehicle it can only be a tank.
Allen,
I thought the same as you when I seen the photo and then read what the reporter wrote.
Typical news reporters, they think everyone is as dumb as they are.
Sad very sad!!
The Ten Commandments that Moses received on the top of Mount Sinai is irrelevant any more. The world leaders just make their own commandments as they go along from the first to the tenth. They just play situational ethics. Capice.
Anyone else notice the sqallor of the alleyways they are fighting in? Are things so bad in Lebannon that they can't even pick up the garbage? Yet the militias and their "benefactors" tool around in Mercedes while the average folk become moving targets. All because these folks have thier attitude of "what can you do for me" instead of "what can I do to make things better for all."
Caption on bottom most photo should read that he is carrying an RPG NOT a machine gun!
It would be nice if whomever writes the captions to a picture could properly describe the what's going on in a photo. If a war writer can't identify an RPG launcher from a machine gun...
So....moral of the story...there's a lot of Mercedes in Lebanon??
And machine guns that look just like RPGs.
Can't imagine the fear one would have sprinting down the street with your kids like that. Thank your lucky stars it's not us.
Not yet anyway, who knows what the Obama, Biden, Pelosi and Reid have up their sleeves before the elections. Why would Obama pass a bill to inact Marshall, if needed, in March ?
Russia & China are the enablers behind the scences that are helping Syria's madman kill Syrians. Boycott all Russian and Chinese products to cut the funding for the weapons that is killing the Syrian People. Russia and China are the enemys of the world.
And you are basing that on what? Got any facts? Or is this just prejudice against someone that's different from you?
I was wondering, when the Syrian violence would spill into Lebanon. Now, I have my answer.
WTF
wtf
I'm glad Obama is not saying anything about this Arab mess. We don't need to be involved in it. I do feel sorry for the innocent people that get hurt or killed. But it remains a Arab problem, let the Arabs fix it. Spend our money and energy here at home to help the American people.
Everybody wants to grab a piece of the pie...
Just another day in the middle east, like any other.
Obama and his foreign policy fiasco extends into new territory.
I wasn't aware he had a foriegn policy. He had pinned his Mid East Peace Plans on Assad being a reformer. So much for that idea.
WTF now the story is completely gone from the front page. Must be fixing it.
Its not our problem. They will work it out adventurously ..
I think they will work it out excitedly..
Yet Egypt and Libya were our problem, or at least they troubled Obama to the point where he had to stick his big, ugly nose into things..
Here we go again, maybe another Arab Spring...time to get out of Afghanistan and let the whole region sort it out for themselves. If they threaten Israel, then we can get involved with whatever support or active military assistance as requested or necessary.
Hesbollah is Shiite. Muz brotherhood is Sunni I think. What is Hamas? Al Qaida is Sunni.
Conflict? Imagine that.
Pakis killing afghans. paki kill paki. Yemenis kill their own. Assad killing Lebanese. Iran killing Iranians. Nigerians killing Christians. Sudanese killing Sudanese for Islam. Libyans killing blacks for Arabs. Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, Kenya, Bahrain,.......... And people call Israel the bad guy. What a hornet's nest.
Hamas is a Sunni Muslim Leroy, And I been telling you all this problem going to get mush bigger, Because the Dumb Saudis and Qataris sending money and weapons like crazy into Lebanon and Syria to start all these wars, AlQAEDA is already in Syria and Lebanon and been funded by our friends the gulf states , and what are we doing ? we are helping them , Go figure , they kill us every where and we arm them in Syria and Lebanon , all I can tell , some of our politicians should be put on trail for treason , for helping our enemies.
Thank you.