Lebanon employs soccer in bid to reduce threat of spill over of Syrian violence
Lebanon's national team trains for crucial game against the UAE (Source: The Daily Star)
By James M. Dorsey
Soccer is rallying divided Lebanon scarred by years of bitter civil war at a time that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s sectarian-tainted brutal crackdown threatens to spill into the streets of Lebanese cities.
In a bid to build on Lebanese rallyin…