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A police car is set on fire by residents who blocked a street with tires in Tyre, southern Lebanon, April 21, 2011. Two civilians were killed during clashes between residents and security forces over the illegal constructions on public lands in Tyre, southern Lebanon, the National News Agency (NNA) reported. REUTERS/ Haidar Hawila

Residents walk past a police car set on fire and tires blocking a street in Tyre, southern Lebanon, April 21, 2011. Two civilians were killed during clashes between residents and security forces over the illegal constructions on public lands in Tyre, southern Lebanon, the National News Agency (NNA) reported. REUTERS/ Haidar Hawila

Residents walk past a police car set on fire and blocking a street in Tyre, southern Lebanon, April 21, 2011. Two civilians were killed during clashes between residents and security forces over the illegal constructions on public lands in Tyre, southern Lebanon, the National News Agency (NNA) reported. REUTERS/ Haidar Hawila

Residents seize a police car in Tyre, southern Lebanon, April 21, 2011. Two civilians were killed during clashes between residents and security forces over the illegal constructions on public lands in Tyre, southern Lebanon, the National News Agency (NNA) reported. REUTERS/ Haidar Hawila

Mainly Syrian workers hold up posters of their President Bashar al-Assad as they rally outside the Syrian embassy in the Lebanese capital Beirut to show their support, on April 12. Lebanese authorities on Wednesday banned rallies for or against Syria's ruling regime, as a pan-Islamic group insisted it would go ahead with a demonstration in support of Syrian protesters. (AFP/File/Anwar Amro)

Students hold a banner in a support of Syrian demonstrators during a sit-in in Beirut April 20, 2011. The banner reads in Arabic, " A salute to the democratic revolutions". Inspired by uprisings across the Arab world, demonstrators in Syria have taken to the streets for more than a month demanding greater freedoms, undaunted by a security crackdown. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Students hold banners in a support of Syrian demonstrators during a sit-in in Beirut April 20, 2011. The banner reads, "No suppression in Syria". Inspired by uprisings across the Arab world, demonstrators in Syria have taken to the streets for more than a month demanding greater freedoms, undaunted by a security crackdown. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

A student holds a banner in a support of the Syrian demonstrators during a sit-in in Beirut April 20, 2011. The banner reads, "No suppression in Syria". REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Lebanese army soldiers rest on an M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) deployed in Beirut, January 2011. Estonia's foreign ministry confirmed that seven men seen begging for help in a video posted on YouTube were the tourists from the Baltic state abducted last month in Lebanon. (AFP/File/Joseph Eid)

A priest walks with children as he carries a bible while celebrating Palm Sunday, marking the start of Holy Week, near Aley town in Lebanon, April 17, 2011. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi

Syrians, living in Lebanon, chant slogans in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as they carry his pictures in front of the Syrian embassy in Beirut April 12, 2011. REUTERS/ Mohamed Azakir

A Libyan boy holds Qatar, Canada, Italy, Lebanon and US flags before Friday prayers near the court house in Benghazi April 15, 2011. A fresh hail of government rockets crashed into Misrata on Friday after Western allies denounced a "medieval siege" of the city and vowed to keep bombing Muammar Gaddafi's forces until he stepped down. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

An Israeli soldier keeps watch during clashes between Israeli and Lebanese troops along the border between the two countries, in August 2010. An Israeli tank briefly entered the disputed border area with Lebanon after the alert was sounded over people picking thyme and thistle in the volatile zone, an army spokesman has said. (AFP/File/Joseph Eid)

Lebanese soldiers stand on alert as an Israeli armored vehicle emits smoke in a border area between Lebanon and Israel in the southern town of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Thursday, April 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Lutfallah Daher)

File photo shows young Lebanese Christian women, members of the Kataeb Phalangist party training in a village caught between the Christian-controlled eastern port of Jounieh and the Christian village of Zahle in the west Lebanon. The Lebanese civil war erupted in April 1975. (AFP/SCANPIX SWEDEN/File/Erich Stering)

A Palestinian woman evacuates some of her belongings from the ruins of Chatila refugee camp in the southern suburb of Beirut in June 1988. The outbreak of Lebanon's 1975 civil war is commemorated on April 13, the day a bus carrying Palestinian refugees came under fire on the outskirts of Beirut. (AFP/File/Nabil Ismail-Kamel Lamaa)

Israeli shells are seen pounding an area in West Beirut in August 1982. Amnesty International have urged Lebanese authorities to investigate the fate of thousands of people who disappeared during the 1975-1990 civil war in the country and are believed dead or held in Syria. (AFP/File/Dominique Faget)

Soldiers sit in a vehicle as a replica of the bus that was carrying Palestinians when it came under attack by Christian militants in Ain el-Remmaneh, an incident believed to be one of the major events that triggered Lebanon's brutal 15-year civil war, drives past, in front of Beirut's museum April 13, 2011. Lebanon marks on April 13 the 36th anniversary of the start of the Lebanese Civil War, which ended in 1990. The signs on the bus read: "To be remembered, not to be repeated" (L) and "God willing, it will not be repeated". REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Lebanese religious representatives gather to mark the 36th anniversary of Lebanon's civil war (1975-1990) in front of Beirut's museum, April 13, 2011. The words in the background read, " Peace between us, or farewell to Lebanon". REUTERS/ Mohamed Azakir

A Syrian pro-government supporter kisses a picture of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a protest to show support to the Syrian regime in old Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 30, 2011, pictured on a government-provided tour. Syrian army troops backed by tanks and helicopters on Saturday took a prominent mosque that had been controlled by residents in a besieged southern city, killing four people, a witness said. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

Syrian blogger Rami Nakhleh -- known online by the pseudonym Malath Aumran -- speaks to reporters from his house in the Lebanese capital Beirut on April 25. Nakhleh has become one of the leading cyber-activists of the "Syrian revolution". (AFP/File/Anwar Amro)

A man sets on fire a photograph of Syrian leader Bashar Assad as pro-Islamic activists protest against him for his security forces' violent crackdown of protests there, following Friday prayers at a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, April 29, 2011. (AP Photo)

Pro-Islamic activists protest against Syrian leader Bashar Assad for his security forces' violent crackdown of protests there, following Friday prayers at a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, April 29, 2011. (AP Photo)

In this image made on a mobile phone, a security man searches the bag of a student at the entrance of Damascus University, in Syria, Wednesday, April 27, 2011. The Syrian army sent more tanks and reinforcements into Daraa on Wednesday as part of a widening crackdown against opponents of President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime, and gunfire and sporadic explosions were heard in the tense southern city. (AP Photo)

The Arab Revolution of 2011