A Hezbollah flag flutters in the background as Lebanese army soldiers patrol in Sidon, southern Lebanon, Nov. 12, 2012. (photo by REUTERS/Ali Hashisho)
Hezbollah and Al Qaeda Fighters Edging Closer to Full Scale Confrontation -- ABC News
Two men dressed in camouflage stand on a patch of dirt amid rubble, Kalashnikov rifles at their sides, at the entrance to a dark hole in the dirt. The wooden screens often found in mosques lay on the ground, cast aside. The hole was the burial place of Hujr bin Uday al-Kindi, one of the prophet Mohammad's companions, widely revered by Muslims, Shiites in particular.
The men standing on top of it are members of Jabhat al-Nusra, a Sunni Muslim extremist rebel group trying to topple the regime of President Bashar al-Assad that recently swore fealty to al Qaeda's leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
The desecration of the shrine - and the removal of the remains - drew condemnation from the highest levels of Shiite Islam. Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei called it "bitter and sad," while the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon issued a statement stark warning that it "foretells a large conflict and gloomy evil."
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Update: Hezbollah Prepares for Attacks by Jabhat al-Nusra in Lebanon -- Al Monitor
My Comment: Hezbollah at war with Al Qaeda .... on the one I must confess that this is the best news that I have read in a long time .... on the other hand .... such a conflict will spill out of Syria and probably consume the region .... starting in Lebanon and then into Iraq thereby destabilizing the entire region.
