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The right of Lebanon's Shiites to political representation has always been in Syria's hands and "the Shiites were not allowed to be politically represented unless they belonged to one of the political Shiite groups falling under Syrian influence," according to Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad al-Amine.

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