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Hezbollah backers protest in Lebanon against anti-Islam film and French cartoon; shots fired at KFC

The protesters are now angry about a French cartoon depicting the Muslim Prophet.

France closes embassies, steps up security in Muslim countries

Fearing a backlash against offensive cartoons published by a satirical magazine, France has ramped up its security aboard.

Lebanese army soldiers secure the area around the French Medical Faculty, French consulate, cultural center and school in Beirut on September 19, 2012. France has ordered special security measures around its embassies and schools because of fears of a hostile reaction to a magazine's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the foreign ministry said.

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