Snipers shot people from rooftops. Masked gunmen fired back with rocket-propelled grenades and B7 rockets. Terrified schoolchildren took cover in corridors. And to top it all off, the violence was all playing out along the capital's former 'Green Line,' a major battle front that divided Beirut's Christian east from the predominantly Muslim west during the 15-year civil war that ended in 1990. It was enough to send shivers down the spine of a people still reeling from collective traumas both […]
