What will Hezbollah do now?

Wed, 02/13/2008 - 10:04am

Passport contributor and Lebanon expert Andrew Exum comments on the killing of Hezbollah military chief Imad Moughniyah:

The timing of the assassination, from the perspective of Lebanese of all political stripes, could not have been worse. Tomorrow, after all, is the anniversary of the assassination of a great figure on the other side of Lebanon's current political divide, former prime minister Rafik Hariri. One hopes that calm heads will prevail and that any ostentatious rallies in Hariri’s honor are postponed. At last year's mass rally, ugly sectarian chants broke out, and surely given Beirut's current tension, such chants could easily devolve into open violence.

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