LEBANON ASHURA

epa00918214 General view to Lebanese Shiite Muslim supporters of Hezbollah Listens to the speech of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during Ashura day in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, 30 January 2007. Ashura day is the remembrance of the 680 A.D. battle in which their saint and grandson of Islam's prophet Muhammad, Hussein, was killed by rivals cementing the split in Islam between Shiites and Sunnis. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed to defeat what he said were US-Israeli plans to provoke civil war in Lebanon and warned that the nation would become a "cemetery of invaders. EPA/WAEL HAMZEH

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