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Amin Gemayel
A wartime president (1982-88), Amin Gemayel was seen as a more unifying figure than his brother Bashir, assassinated president-elect and leader of the right-wing pro-Israeli Christian Phalange movement. |
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Emile Lahoud
Despite high expectations from his own Christian Maronite community - and the backing of the military which he commanded in the post-war period - President Emile Lahoud has proved to be a weak and unpopular leader, taking his cue from Syria on most matters. |
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Fouad Siniora
Lebanon's new prime minister-designate Fouad Siniora was the right-hand man in business and politics of the slain ex-premier Rafik Hariri for more than 20 years.
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Hassan Nasrallah
As the chief of Hezbollah (the Party of God) - the Lebanese guerrilla force and the Shia Muslim community's dominant political bloc - Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah is probably Lebanon's most powerful citizen today. |
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Michel Aoun
Michel Aoun is a Christian Maronite former Lebanese army chief who has lived in exile since 1990 when Syrian-Lebanese forces crushed his rebellion. |
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Nabih Berri
Nabih Berri is speaker of the Lebanese parliament, the highest Shia Muslim position under the Lebanese national pact dating back to 1943, that allocates the presidency to a Maronite and the prime ministership to a Sunni Muslim. |
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Nasrallah Sfeir
Patriarch of Lebanon's largest Christian minority, the Maronite Church, Nasrallah Sfeir has found himself both within the Syrian camp and outside it. |
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Omar Karami
Omar Karami served as prime minister in the early 1990s and was brought back to the post in October 2004 when the billionaire businessmen and architect of Lebanon's post-war reconstruction, Rafik Hariri, fell out with his former allies in Damascus. |
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Rafik Bahaeddine Al-Hariri
Rafik Bahaeddine Al-Hariri — (November 1, 1944 – February 14, 2005), (Arabic: رفيق بهاءالدين الحريري) a self-made billionaire and business tycoon, was Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation on 20 October 2004. |
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Saad Hariri
Saad ed Deen Rafiq al Hariri (Arabic: سعد الدين رفيق الحريري), (born April 18th 1970 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)[citation needed] is the second son of Rafik Hariri, the assassinated former prime minister of Lebanon.
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Samir Geagea
Samir Geagea, (born October 25, 1952) is the formerly imprisoned leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF) militia.
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Walid Jumblatt
Walid Jumblatt is the leader of Lebanon's most powerful Druze clan and heir to a leftist political dynasty based around the Progressive Socialist Party. |
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Madness takes over Lebanon.
Militants are fighting in the streets of Beirut. Military guns are on both sides. What is the prospect of such a situation. Aren't the Lebanese fed-up with wars?
23 November 2007
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud left the Baabda presidential palace without handing over the power to a new president. This is the first time since independence in 1943. |
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