1.0 link 100882 <![CDATA[The Clashes in Beirut: Is the Bush Administration Stirring the Pot?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lysandra-ohrstrom/the-clashes-in-beirut-is_b_100882.html The last time Hezbollah shut down the city of Beirut in January 2007 it was not an act of war. I was living there reporting for the English-Language daily newspaper the Daily Star.

Last night when I went to sleep in Brooklyn, after reading (the meager English-language) reports of "clashes" in the capital, I assumed this violence was not much different than last year's. There were images of men holding pieces of bread and placards near piles of smoldering rubber...

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