The Shia militia's powerful political wing currently sits on a governing coalition
along with the US-backed, Sunni-led Future Movement headed by Sa'ad Al-Hariri, son of the slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri. Lebanese analysts say the possibility of the prime minister's governing partners being accused by an international court of assassinating his father, the country's former leader, has created a state of a political instability and bedlam. "I think what happened yesterday at the border is a reflection of the situation in the region," Fadi Abi Allam, President of the Beirut-based Permanent Peace Movement told The Media Line. "We are in a state of war - both within Lebanon and outside - and everyone trying to protect themselves, so there i