Muslim factions are positive about move

 
By The Associated Press
Published: October 13, 2008

BEIRUT , Lebanon — In polarized Lebanon, flaunting a political leader’s poster can spark a gunfight. So shopkeepers on Beirut’s al-Maamoun Street are breathing a little easier now that "poster disarmament” has been declared.

Most of the posters once plastered on Beirut’s walls and lampposts have come down by agreement between the main factions of Shiite and Sunni Muslims — pa...


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