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Beirut - Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese opposition supporters, led by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, gathered Sunday in the central district of Beirut to take part in a mass rally to exert pressure on the anti-Syrian government to resign.The demonstration comes on the 10th day of a sit-in outside the offices of Prime Minister Fouad Seniora. The Hezbollah-run al-Manar television station described the rally as a 'historic one which Lebanon has not witnessed before.'
Organizers estimated the crowd to be more than 1 million, but police on the ground questioned the figure, saying the two squares where the demonstration took place could not hold so many people especially as tents had been set up there. Most of the roads leading to the squares were blocked to traffic.
'Death to America, death to Israel,' Hezbollah's deputy chief Sheikh Naeem Kassem shouted to the protestors, many of whom were waving Lebanese flags.
Yawn. Can't they be more original than that? It's so .. 1979.
Kassem called on Seniora to resign 'either tonight or tomorrow' and stressed that the protests would continue and that the protestors would 'not be tired.' He accused the government of taking 'Lebanon towards the American hegemony.'
If he had accused the govnerment of 'taking Lebanon towards American citizenship', 99% of the mob would have dropped to their knees in thanksgiving, shouting hallelujahs.