BEIRUT (Reuters) - Politician Ahmad al-Assaad freely acknowledges receiving foreign backing for his campaign to build a Lebanese Shi'ite alternative to the powerful Hezbollah movement.
"I am a man on a mission," said Assaad, scion of a family which once held wide influence in a Shi'ite community now dominated by the Iran-backed Islamist group Hezbollah and its ally Amal, both firm friends of neighbouring Syria.
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