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Hezbollah chief leads thousands in protest

Anti-film ire turns violent in 3 nations

Posted: September 18, 2012 at 5:14 a.m.

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah (center), escorted by his bodyguards, waves to a crowd of tens of thousands of supporters during a rally Monday in Beirut, Lebanon, denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide.

In a rare public appearance, the leader of the militant Hezbollah group exhorted hundreds of thousands of supporters Monday to keep up the campaign against an anti-Islam video that has unleashed deadly violence and anger at the United States across the Muslim world.

Raw video: Afghans protest anti-Islam film

Hundreds of Afghans burned cars and threw rocks at a U.S. military base as a demonstration against an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad turned violent in the Afghan capital early Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. (By The Associated Press)
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