Tension Heightens In Beirut After Overnight Clashes Between Sunni And Shiite Gunmen

A masked Sunni gunman stands guard on a road leading to a Shiite neighborhood after overnight clashes that erupted between Sunni and Shiite gunmen in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday Oct. 22, 2012. Lebanese security officials say overnight clashes in Beirut between Sunni and Shiite gunmen have wounded several people. The officials say troops managed to separate the gunmen and calm returned Monday morning to the two neighborhoods in the capital where fighting had erupted.

Sunni gunmen patrol an empty street leading to a Shiite neighborhood after overnight clashes that erupted between Sunni and Shiite gunmen, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday Oct. 22, 2012. <AP Photo/Hussein Malla>

Lebanese Army soldiers patrol a neighborhood after overnight clashes between Sunni and Shiite gunmen in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. Shortly before noon Lebanese troops began a big operation in the capital aiming to open all closed roads and to force gunmen out of the streets after overnight clashes between Sunni and Shiite gunmen following the funeral of Lebanese Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, who was killed in a car bomb in an east Beirut neighborhood on Friday. <AP Photo/Ahmad Omar>