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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR2007112200832.html?hpid=topnews
Lebanon Enters a New Crisis
[Washington Post] Anthony Shadid - Lebanon's worst crisis since the 1975-90 civil war builds to a climax at midnight Friday, when the term of President Emile Lahoud ends. Despite weeks of French-led mediation, Lebanon's factions appeared unlikely to reach a consensus on Lahoud's replacement by the deadline, plunging the country into a constitutional limbo. Unlike Lebanon's civil war, often characterized as a Christian-Muslim conflict, this crisis has mobilized the country's Sunni and Shiite Muslim communities against each other, with Christians divided between the two camps.