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Old 05-25-07, 08:19 AM   #1
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AFAIK the christian and druse (religious sect with a mix of Islam, Bhuddism and Christianity living in all countries in the area. The druse men mostly are professional soldiers in the Lebanese, Israeli and Syrian armies) dominated, israeli and french trained lebanese army fights a sunni fundamentalist group in one or serveral "refugee camps"; actually now small cities of palestinians in Lebanon, as these camps are there since 1949.
These militant groups are NOT Hezbollah, as they are sunni/palestinian and not lebanese shiite. They may share the common goal of destroying Israel, but as always with Arabs, slaughtering each other comes before slaughtering your real enemy
Apparently the lebanese have to do the dirty work for the IDF now.
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Old 05-25-07, 08:47 AM   #2
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I thought Sunni and Shia were a sixties singing duo
LMAO :rotfl:

You're right about Blackpool too, I was training some people from Blackpool yesterday on Photoshop, and they basically held the same opinion of it. Probably going to be worse this week by all acounts, as it'll be full of Russians over for some dance competition they're having next week, so I was told.

Back on the real topic, as Winston Churchill once said about the Soviet Union, 'a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma' could well be applied to the struggles in the Middle East. There are so many agendas and proxy wars going on there, that I doubt anyone could possibly know all about everything that is behind the fighting. After all, it's only the 'Middle East' to us viewing it from a distance, to the people who are actually there, it's the place where they are, and a fact of daily life. And since there are such a diverse group of people, ideas and theologies behind all the events, it's an enigma that is likely to remain undeciphered. I've been hearing about trouble in the region everyday on the news ever since I was a child, and that's a long time.

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Old 05-25-07, 10:39 AM   #3
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I thought Sunni and Shia were a sixties singing duo until I started on Subsim general
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