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Lebanon is the latest Arab country to be engulfed in a Shiite-Sunni squabble and some Christians worry that their community is factionalizing along these lines as their leaders pick sides between the Muslim sects. "The way [Christians] see it we are facing a Sunni-Shiite confrontation in the region. In Iraq it's a military conflict but in Lebanon it's political," said.

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