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...proposal to elect a new President and form a national unity government. Few expect him to succeed. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak warned on Monday that patience with the feuding Lebanese is running out, and said that if the Arab League proposal founders, "everyone will wash their hands of Lebanon and the country will be lost and no one can know what its future will...
...target of Tuesday's attack may have marked it as a turning point in the campaign of political violence that has racked Lebanon since 2004, but the spectacle was grimly familiar: The acrid stench of smoke, the crunching of shattered glass underfoot, pools of black oil from destroyed vehicles, smeared gouts of congealing blood, wide-eyed and angry soldiers and police thrusting back crowds of journalists and onlookers. The car suspected of carrying the bomb was a twisted sculpture of fire-blackened steel. A second car, containing the bodies of two of the victims, appeared to have taken the brunt...
...embassy confirmed that two embassy security employees, both Lebanese, had been in the vehicle at the time of the explosion, and that one of them had suffered a minor injury. "The Embassy is outraged that there are still those who work to undermine Lebanon's stability through murder and intimidation," the statement said. "The Lebanese people deserve to live in peace and security in an independent and united Lebanon...
...rising tension also portends an end to the relatively carefree life enjoyed by Americans here. Lebanon is one of the most tolerant and cosmopolitan countries in the Middle East, and arguably the prettiest. But it's a tougher place for U.S. diplomats, who live in a fortified hillside compound just north of the capital that they rarely leave, and never without bodyguards. Top officials travel in convoys of armored vehicles, which sometimes break up into decoy mini-convoys to confuse would-be attackers. One of the rumors floating around the bomb scene this evening was that the target vehicles were...
...Today, the United States is once again ensnared in an internal Lebanese political struggle that has become a proxy fight between regional powers, this time pitching the U.S. and Israel against Syria and Iran. Washington has certainly made some powerful enemies in the course of Lebanon's recent upheavals: it used its influence in the U.N. Security Council to help expel Syrian troops from Lebanon in 2005, backed Israel in the 2006 summer war against Hizballah, supported the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora in the face of massive opposition demonstrations, and accused Syria of masterminding the string of bombings...