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Many Egyptians have formed what they call 'popular committees' to protect their areas.
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The Popular Committees were set up last year with the backing of Hezbollah.
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Along with the shabiha, Assad has mobilized the Popular Committees, a nationwide militia made up largely of minority groups loyal to the regime.
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One commander of the Popular Committees said Shiite villages have been repeatedly attacked and some residents have been kidnapped and killed by rebels.
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This suggests that he is likely to go through the motions of consulting the Popular Committees that nominally run his country before announcing a decision.
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The Popular Committees is made up of civilians who helped the government, backed by the United States, to drive out al-Qaeda-linked militants from the south last year.
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Hezbollah chief Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, leader of many of Lebanon's Shiites and a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, has said his group is supporting the cadres of fighters who call themselves Popular Committees.
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One group, the Popular Resistance Committees, has already accused Fayyad of treason and threatened to kill him.
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Israel responded immediately with an air strike on the southern Gaza town of Rafah, killing several leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees whom the Israelis accused of planning the attack.
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Four days of cross-border violence was triggered by an Israeli air strike on Friday that killed a senior leader of the militant group, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), who Israel said had been planning an attack.
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