1.   The Israelis had braced for heavy attacks to avenge a car bombing on Wednesday that killed three people in a Shiite suburb of Beirut.

2.   Mousawi spoke at a heavily guarded residence in a Shiite suburb of Beirut.

3.   The protests were becoming increasingly violent, but talks between government officials and community leaders from the Shiite suburbs where the unrest centered has calmed the situation.

4.   Four other defendants were jailed for life for the attack in the Shiite suburb of Sitra south of Manama in March, the lawyers said.

5.   Hezbollah radio said Israeli helicopters also attacked Syrian and Lebanese army positions on the edge of the Shiite suburbs of Beirut on Friday, without specifying where.

6.   Israel regards the Shiite suburbs as a Hezbollah bastion.

7.   Israeli warplanes also overflew Beirut and its Shiite southern suburbs, a day after a helicopter strike on Hezbollah offices in the Lebanese capital, police said.

8.   Israeli aircraft attacked Hezbollah targets in the Shiite suburbs of Beirut on Thursday, sending frightened inhabitants into shelters, police and witnesses said.

9.   Israeli aircraft focused their raids on the south, but also hit the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley and the Shiite southern suburbs of Beirut.

10.   Israeli helicopters fired rockets Monday on the Shiite southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah guerrillas, wounding eight people, hospital officials said.