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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/05/17/ST2008051702666.html
Hizbullah Emerges Ahead in Lebanon
[Washington Post] Anthony Shadid - Hizbullah today stands unquestioned as the single most powerful force in Lebanon. But the new calculus may prove that Hizbullah's victory was Pyrrhic. A different dynamic emerged in the Chouf, where Hizbullah's fighters met far fiercer resistance from the Druze who populate those mountains, as Shiite fighters shed their old image of guerrillas for a new one of invaders.