As the violence continues in Syria, fighting has spread to other areas in the region, in northern Lebanon fighting shook two neighborhoods in the city of Tripoli over the weekend, and militiamen are preparing for a worsening confrontation, F.S. R.N. David Ender's reports. Babel Tabbana and Jebomosen are two of the most neglected neighborhoods in Tripoli, and well known for sectarian tension. The men in Babel Tabbana are predominantly son of Muslim and support the free Syrian army, the loose coalition of rebels and army defectors fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Jebomosen is predominantly al-await, the Shia Muslim sect to which Assad and most of his inner circle belong. The clashes in neighboring Syria have exacerbated the longstanding animosity between these two neighborhoods. Two days of clashes began Friday and left three civilians dead and two dozen people wounded, including members of the Lebanese army who were deployed to the area but appeared to do little to quell the violence. In Jebomosen on Sunday, tensions remained high as men crowded around the reporter on a street dotted with posters of Assad, chanting, with our blood, our soul, we fight for you Bashar. A few hours before that, men from Babel Tabbana marched through Central Tripoli, carrying the body of a young man killed in the clashes and firing guns in the air. This is not the first round of fighting between the neighborhoods, whose conflict dates to at least the 1970s and the Syrian army's invasion of Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. Militiamen and local leaders in Babel Tabbana said the violence stretches back to a massacre of hundreds in the neighborhood in the 1980s when the Syrian military occupied Lebanon. After his building was hit by rockets and sniper fire on Friday, Muhammad Ahmed Taybay retreated to the basement with his family as he has done many times in the past. His nephew was killed during another round of fighting seven months ago. Recently it's gotten worse. Where are they getting these weapons? If we were a little afraid before, now we are very afraid. We want the army to stop this, even if it means attacking the people who are fighting. The militiamen in Babel Tabbana openly voiced their animosity toward his bullet, the Lebanese shea militia and political party that is allied with Assad. Some Syrians have accused Hasbala of helping Assad's violent crackdown during the 11 month uprising. Hasbala, which has leveraged more than two decades of armed resistance against Israeli aggression in Lebanon and to political clout, now finds its relationship to its Syrian patrons more polarizing than perhaps ever before. The views of the men on the street are shared by members of Lebanon's parliament. Rafat Id, a member of parliament from the Arab Socialist Party, which is allied with Hasbala, denied militiamen from Jebomostan had taken part in the fighting, but did agree that the violence was related to the Syrian uprising. He echoed the rhetoric of Assad, claiming that terrorist groups have been attacking the Syrian government. He blamed the violence on the March 14th coalition, a group of Lebanese political parties named for the large demonstrations in Lebanon in 2005 that preceded the end of nearly 30 years of Syrian occupation. Yeah, what happened today is not from today. It's from almost one week to ten days when the Syrian army want to take all Hamas and relieve Hamas from all the terrorist groups that killed all the citizen and Hamas. And we knew that when Hamas will fall from this group and the Syrian army will take it, somehow it's related with the 14th of March and the entire Muslim Lebanon and they will do something in Tripoli. Members of parliament allied with March 14th say they hope the Syrian government will fall to the rebels, when they openly support, but they expect more violence as the fighting in Syria continues. Svilians too are concerned that the violence in Syria will engulf parts of Lebanon. On Saturday, residents of Tripoli held a small demonstration against the fighting, calling for a city free of weapons. For other purpose, Tripoli is paying much mistakes from other people. Some people are because of the what happened in Syria. They are doing many things to let people be involved in other fights. This is not our fight. We are here in Tripoli. We are not related to Syria or any other country. Though his bullet has been largely quiet about the unrest in Syria, on Sunday Deputy Secretary General Naim Kassim said that his group would not allow Lebanon to be used as a platform against other Arab states and praise the Lebanese government for having achieved political stability and security. David Enders, FSRN, Tripoli, Lebanon.