"In Ain Roummaneh, they aren't waiting to be blamed. By nightfall Sunday night, just yards from the Shiite demonstrators, the Christian neighborhood's own version of the scooter kids had taken to the darkened street corners armed with sticks, rocks, and a few guns. From time to time, black SUVs filled with bulky men with shaved heads and leather jackets—the leadership of the Lebanese Forces political-party-cum-militia—would stop by to check on defenses and offer assistance to the "troops." When asked what the nearby rioting was about, a block organizer named Milo, a fortysomething veteran of the civil war replied, "Outsiders." "They come to our country as guests. And they demonstrate, throw rocks at our army, and burn our cars. We are only defending our land from these foreigners," said Milo, speaking of Lebanese who have lived their entire lives just a few hundred yards from his home." (thansks Ramez)