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                         Four Killed in Lebanon Clashes

   by Reuters

   Four people were killed in clashes in Lebanon's northern city of
   Tripoli on Monday, security sources said, in more violence stoked by
   civil war in neighboring Syria.
   The overnight clashes in Tripoli ended a week of relative calm after 29
   people were killed last month in the deadliest fighting yet between
   gunmen who support the uprising against Bashar al-Assad and Alawite
   supporters of the Syrian president.
   At least one of the dead came from the Sunni Muslim Bab Tabbaneh
   neighborhood, and 27 people were wounded, mainly by sniper fire in the
   city center, the sources in Tripoli said.
   "We ask the Lebanese state to get rid of this criminal element. Get
   them out of this area, we are asking for nothing more. We are
   civilians, as you can see, and we are not fighting anyone. All snipers
   are from that side [the criminal element],'' said Lebanese citizen Abou
   Moustafa.
   Lebanon is struggling to curb the spillover of violence from Syria,
   where 80,000 people have died in the last two years.
   Twelve people were killed on Sunday just inside Lebanon in a fight
   between pro-Assad Hezbollah guerrillas and Syrian rebels.
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