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...Equally ominous for Siniora would have been the sight of so many Lebanese Christians joining forces with Hizballah's Shi'ite base. Followers of Maronite Christian leader General Michel Aoun formed a colorful stream that flowed into the out of Christian East Beirut and into the crowd at the rally, dressed in their trademark orange. Aoun, who has presidential ambitions, formed an alliance with Hizballah that has split Lebanon's large Christian population, which has historically had strong ties to the U.S. and the West...
...families fleeing the south arrived on Saturday, but numbers surged on Monday, said George Abisamra, an Aoun supporter who had volunteered to help out at the school. As of today, 400 people had taken shelter here, he said, and his party had taken it on themselves to organize care for them. "We have to help them," he said, "They are Lebanese...
...found it at the local public school. Shi'ite refugees from the south had taken shelter here, in the heart of this Christian community that splits its loyalties between Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, which has a political alliance with Hizballah, and Samir Geagea's Lebanese Forces, which are virulently anti-Hizballah and even anti-Muslim...
...taken refuge. "We need to stop the attacks," says Lynn Heinisch, of U.S. aid group CARE, "and get them food, medicines and shelter before it's too late." Getting Closure SPAIN A judge investigating the Madrid train bombings charged a Lebanese man in connection with the attacks. Mahmoud Slimane Aoun was detained on suspicion of involvement with other suspects accused over the bombings. And an Italian court approved the extradition to Spain of Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, an alleged mastermind of the attacks that killed 191 in March...
...report also counted 3,641 car bombs, which killed 4,386 people. The toll includes 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French paratroopers who died in nearly simultaneous truck bombings in 1983. The Lebanese conflict, which ended in 1990 when Syrian forces crushed Christian General Michel Aoun and an Arab League-mediated peace accord took hold, claimed more than twice the number of lives lost by both sides in the five major Arab-Israeli wars since...