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For anyone confused by the fragmentary and hot-buttoned reports (“Al Qaeda!” “Terrorists!” “Don’t think, just look at these scary words!”) coming out of Lebanon on the military assault on Palestinian refugee camps, Charles Harb of the American University of Beirut has a succinct primer in the Guardian. As Sy Hersh has already noted, what we are seeing in the violent carnage at Nahr al-Bared is yet another example of blowback, where militant sectarians are