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/ 1 December 2006
Beirut was on high alert on Friday as hundreds of thousands of opposition demonstrators, led by the pro-Syrian militant group Hezbollah, staged a massive show of force aimed at pressing the Western-backed government to resign. Lebanese troops and armoured vehicles were heavily deployed in the capital as hordes of protesters packed streets.
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/ 25 September 2006
Archaeologists excavating a necropolis uncovered by construction workers in Beirut only two weeks before war broke out between Hezbollah and Israel had to stop work this summer when Israeli bombs started falling on the country. The first bombs to strike the centre of the capital during the 34-day war hit only about 100m away.