Monday, February 05, 2007
For fans of the "Cedar Revolution": ""There is a reappearance of arms in the hands of almost every political group; we are sitting on a powder keg, tension is increasing every day," said a prominent security analyst. "They don't know what they are doing, they are going to destroy this country."...The sense of instability has deepened with the seizure of guns and training equipment in November from members of a former Christian militia commando unit as well as reports by US intelligence analysts of fighters loyal to Lebanon's largest Sunni party being trained abroad. The private intelligence company Stratfor reported in December that "Lebanon's Sunni bloc, led by the Hariri clan and their regional Arab allies, has sent a number of fighters to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt to receive military training to counter Hizbullah's well-equipped and well-trained military forces.""