A Rebellion Against Hezbollah?
Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir has shot to fame by rallying to the cause of Syria’s rebels and taking on the most powerful faction in Lebanon.
A Lebanese Salafist cleric who has emerged over the past year from obscurity to become a leading and controversial Sunni activist has launched a sit-in in this port city to press for the disarming of the powerful Shiite Hezbollah organization.
A year ago, Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir was known only to a small group of followers who attended his sermons at the Bilal bin Rabeh mosque in Sidon. But with neighboring Syria mired in
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