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Lebanon Loses 78000 Books To Terrorism: Tripoli's "Al Sa'eh" Library Burned
2014 is off to a horrible start in Lebanon. The explosion that took place in Beirut yesterday, in the year’s first few days, has been paralleled by another act of terrorism in Lebanon’s northern capital, where extremist gunmen torched the city’s biggest library, Lebanon’s second, burning it to the ground.
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In reality, most of the books have remained intact. Also, it is believed that the real reason for the attack is to get the building and the Father has been refusing to give it up. So it's likely to be a financial "dirty business" reason rather than sectarianism.
Its too bad google wasn't able to get in and scan them before they got destroyed.