"Barricading Beirut..."

NEWSWEEK, here and Fida' Itani in Al Akhbar, here ,.. sort of reminded me of this VanityFair story

"...Some analysts speculate that by seizing Beirut, Hizbullah was attempting a strategy similar to that of the Palestinian group Hamas, which took power by force in the Gaza Strip last June. Yet at least so far, Hizbullah has proceeded with more caution, declaring it would hand over some captured territory to the Army as a gesture of goodwill. Nasrallah and other Hizbullah leaders are likely to want to avoid the trap Hamas fell into in Gaza. Hizbullah—which is backed by Syria and Iran—has to be careful not to be "too big in Lebanon,"