Posted AT 7:33 PM EDT on 11/05/08
Furious Sunnis feel betrayed by their leader
BEIRUT — It was a scene that unfolded with agonizing regularity all weekend long in Tariq al-Jadeeda, a Sunni Muslim neighbourhood in the southern suburbs of this tense city. A crowd of mourners marched angrily through the streets, carrying a casket holding another dead young man – another “martyr,” everyone insists – over their heads. They cried out to an invisible God.
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