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Monday, May 21, 2012
Sunni Muslim gunmen attend the funeral of Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed and his religious companion in their hometown al-Bireh, north of Beirut on May 21, 2012. Army troops shot dead the Sunni cleric on May 20, when his convoy failed to stop at a checkpoint in north Lebanon, that was set up following a week of intermittent clashes in the northern port of Tripoli between Sunnis hostile to the Syrian regime and Alawites who support President Bashar al-Assad.
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