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| Fri, 05/09/2008 - 14:28 |
Lebanon's capital, Beirut, has been wracked by pitched gun-battles between pro-government and anti-government forces over the last three days. 11 people are confirmed dead and more than 20 people have been wounded. The fighting began on Wednesday when the Hizbullah-led opposition reacted to the US-backed government's move to ban their military telecommunications network. Fierce battles continued today, but at airtime anti-government forces controlled all of west Beirut. The country has been without a president for 7 months, in what is the worst internal crisis since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war. FSRN's Jackson Allers reports from Beirut.
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