Introduction the beirut spring; chapter one state within a state; chapter two hanging with hezbollah; chapter three we know where you live; chapter four the shatter zone; chapter five welcome to hezbollah land; chapter six something dark is coming; chapter seven everything couldexplode at any moment; chapter eight the july war; chapter nine hezbollah's putsch; chapter ten from jerusalem to beirut; chapter eleven so this is our victory; chapter twelve the siege of ain ebel; chapter thirteen the solution is in tehran; chapter fourteen guns in the capital
Chapter fifteen götterdämmerungchapter sixteen the mystic in his bunker; chapter seventeen the arabist in his palace; chapter eighteen the warlord in his castle; chapter nineteen a hurricane in the land of the cedars; epilogue death to the dictator; acknowledgments; endnotes; index
Summary
The Road to Fatima Gate is a first-person narrative account of revolution, terrorism, and war during history's violent return to Lebanon after fifteen years of quiet. Michael J. Totten's version of events in one of the most volatile countries in the world's most volatile region is one part war correspondence, one part memoir, and one part road movie. He sets up camp in a tent city built in downtown Beirut by anti-Syrian dissidents, is bullied and menaced by Hezbollah's supposedly friendly "media relations" department, crouches under fire on the Lebanese-Israeli border during the six-
