At Barricades in Downtown Beirut, Lebanon's Fault Lines Grow Deeper - washingtonpost.com

At Barricades in Downtown Beirut, Lebanon's Fault Lines Grow Deeper - washingtonpost.com: "BEIRUT, Dec. 2 -- In a city of frontiers, Beirut built another border Saturday.

On one side of coiled barbed wire and metal barricades were armored personnel carriers manned by soldiers in red berets toting U.S.-made M-16 rifles and guarding the colonnaded, stone government headquarters where Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and other ministers have taken up residence. On the other were the fervent young men of Hezbollah and its allies, who have turned a downtown tailored for the rich into the site of an open-ended protest to force the government's fall." Read complete post here.