Hundreds of Shiite Muslims enraged by a TV comedy that mocked the leader of Hezbollah took to the streets of southern Beirut on Thursday night, burning car tires and blocking roads -- including the highway to Lebanon's international airport, police and witneses said.
The trouble began shortly after a TV show on Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. -- a privately-owned Christian channel -- in which an actor spoofed Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, wearing the Hezbollah leader's trademark black turban and sported a similar beard and spectacles.
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