Mitchell Prothero of U.S. News and World Report gives a shout-out. This paragraph is right on target:
But while such groups have received little support from Lebanon’s Sunnis in the past, their humiliating defeat last week by Hezbollah and the tensions that led to the clashes already had Beirut’s urbane and unarmed Sunni population looking to religious conservatives and rougher men from outlying regions like Tripoli, Akkar, and the Bekaa Valley, which all have significant militant communities.
I’ll try to post something this weekend on the different militant Sunni groups operating in Lebanon.
