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In case you missed it in the media deluge surrounding the death of Anna Nicole Smith, there has been a rising level of violence in Lebanon that is setting the Middle East on edge.

Here’s what graffiti looks like in Beirut:

According to reports by IRIN,

Leaders of the Lebanese pro-government ‘March 14’ group warned that the country was sliding towards Iraq-style sectarian violence after at least three people were killed in explosions that hit two buses travelling through a Christian-majority mountain town outside Beirut.

“This was a new form of terrorism for Lebanon. We are all afraid that it will push Lebanon towards the kind of violence that we see in Iraq,� Michel Khoury, a member of the Christian Phalangist Party and of the March 14 committee, told IRIN.

The bombing came a day ahead of a planned mass rally by the March 14 group to commemorate the second anniversary of the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks) is an editorially independent part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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