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FILE - In this March 4, 2011, file photo, Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir, a Lebanese anti-Syrian regime leader, addresses his supporters during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar Assad, where a number of the Syrian Baath Party supporters were also protesting, at the Martyrs square in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon. A Lebanese military prosecutor has charged a hard-line Sunni cleric with being involved in a deadly shootout with government troops and killing of soldiers, demanding he face the death penalty. Lebanon's state news agency reported Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 that military prosecutor Riad Abu Ghaida also charged 56 supporters of cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir with committing crimes against the military. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla,File)
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** FILE ** Lebanese Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir, one of Hezbollah’s harshest critics in Lebanon, is seen with his weapon during a tense situation between his group and Hezbollah in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Feb. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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A Free Syrian Army supporter holds and covers his face with a the Syrian revolutionary flag during an anti-Syrian regime and Salafist group leader Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir demonstration in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. Assir, a strong critic of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah and Syrian President Bashar Assad, has organized multiple protests over the past year in a bid to increase support for the Syrian uprising and mount an offensive against Nasrallah for openly supporting AssadÃs regime. Arabic writing on his headband reads, "at your service God's Prophet." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
