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...biggest concern now is that Fatah al-Islam is a tool created by the Syrian regime to stir up chaos in Lebanon as a way of heading off a U.N. tribunal that may prosecute Syrian officials for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. ?The Syrian regime is continuing its old policies of using Palestinians as fodder for all the battles the Syrians are waging in the region,? says Lebanese commentator Khayrallah Khayrallah. But a longer-term worry is that a triangle of continuing political instability from Baghdad to Gaza to Tripoli will spawn a even more armed...
...bombardment of a Palestinian refugee camp risks broadening the conflict to include other mainstream Palestinian factions as well as Hizballah - which, though a Shi'ite group at odds with al-Qaeda, is nonetheless closely allied with Sunni Palestinian factions like Hamas. With Lebanon balanced on a knife-edge since Hariri's killing two years ago, many fear that unrest could cause the country to stumble backwards into the civil war that ravaged the country between 1975-90, itself ignited amid friction involving armed Palestinian groups...
...Siniora's government believes that Fatah al-Islam is a Syrian proxy, stirring up trouble in order to sabotage efforts to set up a U.N. tribunal in the Hariri assassination and eventually reassert Syrian hegemony in Lebanon; a U.N. investigative report has cited senior officials close to Syrian President Bashar Assad for complicity in the 2005 killing. The government said suspects arrested in the February bus bombings confessed to being Fatah al-Islam members working for Syria, with apparent orders to attack U.N. forces in southern Lebanon and target 36 Lebanese for assassination. Syrian officials angrily rejected the accusations, saying...
...offensive against militants holed up in Nahr al-Bared. The Lebanese government believes that the sudden surge of violence is linked to moves by members of the United Nations Security Council to appoint an international tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Though Syria has denied any involvement, many believe it was behind the killing. "The pro-Syrian opposition has reached a complete political deadlock and the international tribunal is about to be passed by the United Nations. That's the reason why we are seeing this violence," Marwan Hamade, Lebanese minister...
...military actions that quickly ended the fighting. Chirac later paired with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to found Europe's Rapid Reaction Force as an alternative to overtaxed U.S. troops in responding to security crises. More recently, after the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister and personal friend Rafik Hariri in 2005, Chirac teamed up with Washington to co-author a U.N. push to break Syria's hold on Lebanon, and to seek justice for those behind Hariri's murder. And despite the major setback he suffered in 2004 when French voters rejected the European Union constitution he supported, Chirac...