Naharnet News Desk: "What made the trick was the massive turnout of the Sunni sect onto the streets of the capital to defy Syria's tutelage. Crowds from densely-populated Sunni neighborhoods stood shoulder-to-shoulder with opposition activists from various Christian communities and Walid Jumblat's Druze sect, chanting 'we want the truth, we want sovereignty, we want Syria out.' The Sunnis make up the biggest bloc among Lebanon's eligible voters.
One poster brandished among an ocean of Lebanese flags read 'long live Syria inside Syria.' Another poster read 'President Lahoud, rest assured your turn is coming,' a reference that he might be overthrown over Hariri's assassination.
Legislator Marwan Hamadeh, who survived an assassination attempt in October, formally opened the sit-in protest by declaring that the massive opposition was 'writing the end of President Lahoud's police state and its Syrian backers.' He drew thunderous cheers when he announced 'this is the end to the one whose regime has been extended and to those who extended his regime.' Hamadeh, a former minister under Hariri's premiership, said 'the days of the secret service, the days of the ghosts are numbered.'"
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