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...according to polls. And the massacre at Qana may have sealed the bond. "Every house being destroyed is our house, every dead hero is our brother, every kid being killed by an American bomb is our kid," said Dr. Naya Izzaldine, 40, a pathologist from West Beirut and a Sunni Muslim. On Monday, the airwaves are already filled with songs about Qana and someone with access to a huge color printer produced a super-sized image depicting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with bloody fangs, and hung it from a highway overpass in the center of town. Offices are shut...
...Islamic rule in Lebanon. The global jihadis think much bigger. They are Salafists, radicals who seek to revive the original and, to their minds, pure practice of Islam and establish a caliphate from Spain to Iraq, in all the lands where Islam has ever ruled. The Salafists are Sunni, and Hizballah is Shi'ite, which means their hatred for each other is apt to rival their hatred for the U.S. Al-Qaeda's late leader in Iraq, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, used to say Shi'ites were worse than Americans and launched a brutal war on them in Iraq...
Hamas is a Sunni organization, but it has no known ties to al-Qaeda. When bin Laden's band tried to instruct Hamas on how to proceed after it won Palestinian elections in January, the group--which takes pride in its homegrown, independent character--told al-Qaeda to buzz off, according to Hamas and Israeli intelligence sources. Hamas accepts limited assistance from Iran, and some of its leaders take sanctuary in Syria, but the group holds both countries at arm's length...
...British Prime Minister Tony Blair signaled that Hizballah would hardly be a straightforward enemy when he said the deployment "can only work if Hizballah is prepared to allow it to work." Even so, U.S. officials still hope the foreign presence could strengthen the political forces inside Lebanon--Christian, Druze, Sunni and others--that resent political domination by Hizballah's private army, perhaps to the point that Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government would finally move against it. But Aaron Miller, a former top U.S. Middle East negotiator, says Lebanon's political fragility means that a serious try at bringing Hizballah...
...gets more complicated still. The Iran-Hizballah-Hamas axis is not the only church of Islamism. Enter Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's No. 2, rushing to keep up with the mob, the mob that is now scandalously led by Persian and Shi'ite Iran. On behalf of Sunni and Arab al-Qaeda--just yesterday the champion of all things radically Muslim and anti-Western--al-Zawahiri last week issued a call for all Muslims to rise up against Israel...