Lebanon: Violent Anti-Hezbollah Protests Erupt in “Day of Rage”…

Grass-roots fury rippled across Lebanon on Tuesday as a Hezbollah-backed politician got the nod as the fractious country’s new prime minister.

Lebanon’s President Michel Suleiman appointed Hezbollah-backed Najib Mikati to lead the country’s government, seen by supporters of caretaker prime minister Saad Hariri’s Western-backed Future Movement as a power grab by the Iranian-backed Shiite movement.

The appointment was made on a so-called “Day of Rage,” announced by supporters of Hariri.

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