[Boston Globe] Thanassis Cambanis - In Beirut's battered Shi'ite Muslim neighborhoods, Hizballah supporters crow about their "divine victory" over Israel amid piles of rubble. Across town, Christians are lining up for American and Canadian visas, while Sunni Muslims and members of the Druze sect say they need weapons of their own to counter Hizballah's. Sectarian groups that grumbled about Hizballah before the conflict now talk openly about civil war. Since the war, angry Lebanese have begun blaming Hizballah for reopening dangerous sectarian rifts.
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