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...maxim that all politics is local. With so many foreign powers meddling in the country's perennially sectarian struggle for control, Lebanon functions as a kind of political barometer of the Middle East. And that's why the news Thursday, Sept. 10, that Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri had given up trying to form a consensus government three months after his ruling coalition won the country's parliamentary elections is a sign of a more general unease in the region: Lebanon's political crisis - and the broader Middle East cold war of which it is an expression - is far from...
...even a friend," says a French diplomat who asked not to be named. Sarkozy's trust, he adds, was especially appreciated by Damascus given the hatred former French President Jacques Chirac reserved for Assad - whom he blamed for the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister and Chirac intimate Rafiq Hariri. "There's some genuine gratitude at work right now," the diplomat says. (Read "Did Hizballah Kill Rafiq Hariri...
...Eastern state after a four-year hiatus. Analysts say the gambit, which follows special envoy George Mitchell's visit to Syria earlier in June, is intended to soothe regional tensions and combat Iranian influence. The U.S. had withdrawn its ambassador after the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, a crime many suspected Syrian intelligence officials of orchestrating...
...demand for a U.N. probe was partly inspired by the international body's investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri four years ago, says Hussain Haroon, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.N. "We thoroughly investigated the Hariri case, but there were some pitfalls there that we want to avoid," he says. "In this particular case, the government of Pakistan was interested in retaining some aspects of sovereignty, whereas in the Hariri case, they were not in the hands of the Lebanese government." Other crucial differences include the fact that "the Bhutto Commission," as it is being...
...Islamabad. "They have started receiving reams of transcripts and translations," says Haroon, including police case files and the Scotland Yard report. One of the assistants to Heraldo Munoz, the Chilean ambassador, is Peter Fitzgerald, a retired senior officer with Ireland's national police force. "Fitzgerald has worked on Hariri and in Bosnia," adds Haroon, "he's a great sleuth." Haroon sees the need for an investigation of international stature to allay the not uncommon suspicion of official collusion in her death. (Read: "A Year After Bhutto: Tears and Troop Movements...