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Cracks Begin to Appear in Support for Hizballah
[McClatchy] Tom Lasseter - Hizballah remains in firm control of southern Lebanon and enjoys overwhelming popularity there, but fissures are beginning to creep across that support as winter comes, with crops destroyed, jobs scarce, and the wreckage of war still unrepaired. "People are saying OK, it was a tremendous military performance [by Hizballah], but at the end of the day, it was the Shiites who suffered," said Timor Goksel, a former senior adviser to UNIFIL.