Lebanese scene
Recent attacks by Shia Hezbollah on the Sunni-led government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora in Lebanon signalled the coming bloodbath between two hostile Muslim sects in the region. Heavily-armed Shiite gunmen belonging to Hezbollah are slaughtering mostly unarmed or lightly armed Sunnis with the aim to establish a Shiite hegemony in Lebanon and unless other Arab countries stop Hezbollah, Lebanese Sunnis might face a mass slaughter.
Hezbollah gunmen went on a rampage in Beirut, slaughtering Sunni supporters of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora. For three days, they attacked Sunni neighbourhoods and heavily outgunned Sunni militias who suffered heavy casualties. Hezbollah militias also set on fire the newspaper owned by assassinated former Sunni prime minister Rafiq Hariri and the television station run by his son Saad Hariri. Faced with total defeat, Prime Minister Siniora called off his supporters, letting Hezbollah virtually a free hand to run a parallel government.
In fact, they have already declared a war on the Sunni-led government of Fuad Siniora and Hezbollah packs far more firepower than the Lebanese army and police and in any showdown, the Sunnis are likely to face a massacre.
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