Word: lebanons
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Although Syrian President Hafez Assad has condemned the assassination, his official state-run paper expressed no sorrow at the event. Syria and its client Lebanon are the only neighboring countries that have not signed a peace agreement with Israel, and little progress has been made in Syrian-Israeli peace talks since they began in 1991. "Syria's stand toward the peace process is fixed and it is still sincere to the issue of just and comprehensive peace in the region," the Tishrin daily said. "Syria will persist with this path regardless of this or that incident." In Lebanon, many cheered...
Palestinian fundamentalists greeted the news of Rabin's assassination, MacLeod reports. In Lebanon, PLO members fired guns into the air in celebration. Mohammed Zahhar, a leader of Hamas, told an Associated Press reporter in Gaza: "He practiced all forms of violence against us. I'm joyful because he was punished." Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, the new leader of Islamic Jihad who succeeded assassinated leader Fathi Shiqaqi, told Reuters in Damascus, Syria: "I am not sorry for the killing of Rabin who is the world's number one terrorist. What if the world lost one of the criminals and killers...
...Bosnia. Congress, for its part, has no appetite for approving that decision--but also has little stomach for standing in Clinton's way. And the White House is still struggling with questions that experts say cannot be ignored if Clinton hopes to avoid the disasters of previous deployments in Lebanon and Somalia...
...Palestinian uprising] we could speak more freely." Since the Authority took control, about 1,500 people, most described as Arafat opponents, have been detained, often without formal charges. A State High Security Court, whose legal foundation is the revolutionary code that the Palestine Liberation Organization adopted in Lebanon in 1979, has tried at least two dozen Palestinians and handed down harsh sentences. "There's been no improvement in human rights--except for the decline in violence toward Palestinians due to the Israeli army's withdrawal," says activist Raji Surani, who was held for 18 hours last February after he criticized...
Nizar Halaby died in a fusillade of bullets outside his home in Beirut this morning, and Lebanon may be closer to rekindled civil war because of it. Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe reports that Halaby, a leader of the influential Habashi, a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim sect, "was thought to be the person most likely to become the next musti -- or highest religious leader -- of the Sunnis." The killing, by unknown assassins, is a setback for Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose government has been trying to shed the terrorist image Lebanon acquired during the 1975-1990 civil...