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Clergymen Bearing Gifts

Lebanon pays the price of clerical bravado.

First posted on my short-lived blog Tharwalizations. 

Beware the clerics even when they come bearing victory – for the price is always too high for this worldly life.

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Posted on 27/08/2006 by AmmarPosted in Religion, Sociopolitical Observations, TerrorismTagged Hezbollah, Lebanon.

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