"Whether you take a Christian village in the north of Lebanon or a Muslimvillage in the south, the DNA make-up of its residents is likely to be identical, " says Dr Zalloua.
Two of the attackers were also fatally shot Saturday night, escalating tensions in eastern Sabah state, where Malaysia's biggest security crisis in recent years began after about 200 members of a Philippine Muslim royal clan occupied a village last month to claim the territory as their own.