The predominantly Sunni district lies below, in the shadows - and the gunsights - of Jabal Muhsin.
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Salah al-Shanfarah, Dr Nasser al-Khabaji, and Muhsin Basarah have been boycotting parliament in recent weeks in protest against government action in the south.
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Posters of Bashar al-Assad, who succeeded his father Hafez in 2000, are everywhere on Jabal Muhsin, while rebel Free Syrian Army flags outnumber Lebanese ones in the Sunni areas nearby.
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