BEIRUT - A "martyr's" portrait of a youthful solemn-faced Ziad Ghalayini gazes down from a two story-tall poster emblazoned across the facade of a small shabby apartment building in a narrow street in Beirut’s Hamra district.
Ziad was just 17 when he was shot dead by a sniper in May 2008 during the brief seizure by Hezbollah and its allies of west Beirut, the takeover being an unprecedented response to the then Lebanese government's decision to shut down Hezbollah's private communications network.