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Rival Lebanese Muslim militias battled in the streets of Tripoli, killing six people and wounding 11 in fighting that threatened an eight-month-old Syrian-mediated truce. Fundamentalist Tawhid Muslims clashed with the pro-Syrian Arab Democratic Party militia for 12 hours, using automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. Syria had mediated a truce between rival factions to end bloody street battles in the northern port city. Elsewhere in Lebanon, army troops, backed by Muslim militiamen, exchanged fire with the Christian Lebanese Forces militia around the southern port of Sidon.
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