MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Apparently, the seeds of this Sunni uprising in Lebanon may have been planted by Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist organization seeking the reestablishment of the Caliphate in the Muslim world. If this gains momentum in Tripoli and elsewhere it has the potential to become a huge problem for Hezbollah, a pro-Assad Shiite terror organization and the most powerful single political movement in Lebanon today. What happens next is anyone’s guess …

“Three people died and 23 were wounded during fierce clashes on Saturday between Lebanese Sunni Muslims hostile to Syria’s regime and Alawites who support it, a Lebanese security official said.

‘A Sunni and an Alawite were killed and 23 people were wounded in clashes that continued since Friday between people from the neighbourhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tebbaneh’ in the northern city of Tripoli, the official told AFP.

A 17-year-old girl died of her wounds later.

Ten soldiers were among those wounded in the fighting, among them a sergeant whose wounds were critical, the official added.

The two sides fired guns and rocket-propelled grenades at each other in the bloodiest clashes since last June when six people were killed in the wake of demonstrations against the Syrian government.

Sunni-majority Tripoli has in the past few years been the scene of intense clashes between Sunni supporters of the anti-Syrian opposition and Alawite Muslims loyal to a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Iran and Syria.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is fighting an unprecedented revolt against his regime, is from the Alawite community, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.” Read more.

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