Britain has moved to quash a row over its Middle East policy by taking down a controversial blog post by its ambassador in Beirut praising the late Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a staunchly anti-American cleric who was a mentor for Lebanon's militant Hezbollah movement. Frances Guy had commented in her blog – on the Foreign Office website – that Fadlallah's death was sad news, calling the
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