Lebanese tribesleader Sheikh Rashid Jaafar (L) talks with his visitors Hajj Sadeq Jaafar and Ali Jaafar (R) at his house in Hermel in the Bekaa Valley on October 16. There are an estimated 100 clans in the Bekaa, among them a handful of powerful families such as the Jaafars, the Zaayters, the Dandash and the Hamadehs, whose names have become legend and are evoked with awe and fear. Photo:Joseph Eid/AFP