[Daily Star-Lebanon] Nicholas Blanford - Talk to one of the newly arrived UN peacekeepers in South Lebanon and one will quickly learn that their principal force-protection concern has little to do with Lebanon's Hizballah militants. Rather, it's al-Qaeda's possibly taking advantage of nearly 10,000 foreign, mainly Western, troops deployed in Lebanon's south that is giving them pause for thought. And with good reason - al-Qaeda's brand of Sunni militancy has taken root in Lebanon in recent years, feeding upon the insurgency in Iraq where hundreds of young Lebanese and Palestinian Sunnis have fought American and British troops and returned home inspired by their experiences.
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