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A Wild Day in Beirut

Written by Franklin Lamb - Counterpunch
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Street Notes from the Hamra District "Where did they come from?", the desk clerk at the Royal Plaza Hotel in Rauche by the sea near Hamra wondered out loud. "I have been on duty all night and saw nothing. Suddenly they are everywhere!"
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Robert Fisk: Hizbollah rules west Beirut in Iran's proxy war with US

Written by Robert Fisk
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Another American humiliation. The Shia gunmen who drove past my apartment in west Beirut yesterday afternoon were hooting their horns, making V-signs, leaning out of the windows of SUVs with their rifles in the air, proving to the Muslims of the capital that the elected government of Lebanon has lost.
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Address made by General Aoun on Friday 09, 2008

Written by tayyar
Friday, 09 May 2008
“On this day, I would like to address the Lebanese people in general and our people in Beirut in particular. Today is the day of victory; not the victory of some people over some others, because in Lebanon all the Lebanese people win together.
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Robert Fisk: Gun battles as Hizbollah claims Lebanon is at war

Written by Robert Fisk
Friday, 09 May 2008
If you want to fight us, you'll have to fight us. This was Sayed Hassan Nasrallah's message to the Lebanese government yesterday and his words were followed within seconds by two massive gun battles in the streets of Beirut.
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Robert Fisk: Lebanon descends into chaos as rival leaders order general strike

Written by Robert Fisk
Friday, 09 May 2008
Burning tyres on the airport road, flights suspended, demands from the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt that Hizbollah moves secret cameras from runway 1-7 and end the militia's equally secret underground communications equipment. Across Corniche Mazraa, crowds of shrieking Sunni and Shia Muslims hurl abuse and stones at each other. A soldier comes up to my car at the crossroads. "Turn round," he shouts. "They're shooting."
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Disparition du faux témoin de l'affaire Hariri

Written by Le Figaro
Friday, 11 April 2008
Georges Malbrunot - Personnage clé en 2005, placé sous protection de la France, ce Syrien est devenu embarrassant après de fausses déclarations. Il est aujourd'hui introuvable.
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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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