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Lebanon hoped to never again find itself in the grip of a civil war after a 15-year civil war there ended in 1990. Today, it is staring at that very possibility. Fighting on the streets in Beirut, the capital, is the worst since the end of the war. Hezbollah gunmen are now in control of most of the Muslim part of the city. ...