premise: "This is an attempted coup but we will remain strong," he told reporters.
  Organizers pledged that the event would be peaceful and Hezbollah deployed thousands of its own "discipline men", who maintained tight crowd control and took up positions between army forces and protesters.
  The Lebanese military has instructions to maintain order and not take sides in the protest.
  "An attempt at a coup d'etat begins today" said the pro-government daily Al-Mustaqbal.
  The pro-Syrian Ad-Diyar proclaimed: "The moment of truth is upon us".
   What duties did Hezbollah's discipline men have once deployed?
hypothesis: maintained tight crowd control