Dreams Into Lightning 2

"Down with Assad - Hezbollah Next"

Some 150 protesters gathered in Lebanon's Sunni Muslim city of Tripoli Friday to demand Syria's Bashar al-Assad step down and warning his ally, the Shia Hezbollah, that it would be next. Chanting "Down with Bashar al-Assad" and "Your turn is next, Hezbollah," they gathered outside the local Qubbah mosque before making their way through the densely populated city, which is located on Lebanon's northern coast. ...

"The Lebanese army has crushed those terrorists."

Lebanon says Fatah Islam has been crushed. 'Lebanon's defense minister said Thursday that Islamic militants holed up in a north Lebanon refugee camp have been defeated and that the month-long "military operation is over," except for mopping up. "The Lebanese army has crushed those terrorists," Defense Minister Elias Murr said in a television interview late Thursday. "I can notify the Lebanese that the military operation is over," he said. "What is happening now is some cleanup ... and dismantling some mines." The Lebanese army "has destroyed all Fatah Islam positions," Murr declared on the private Lebanese Broadcasting Television. "The army is combing the area," he said. ...'