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...allow for much sectarian expression. Much of the pent-up anger under Saddam's regime is now finding an outlet in brutal daily violence. Iran will not hesitate to support an embattled Shi'ite community with all the means at its disposal - just look at Iran's meddling in Lebanon in support of its proxy Hizballah. Isaac Gerstman Tel Aviv...
...Hariri, the head of the parliamentary majority, believes that the opposition bid is intended to wreck the international tribunal and to save the Syrian regime. "The tribunal is the only protection for Lebanon, not just for politicians but for all Lebanese," Hariri said. "If there is no hope for the international tribunal, then there is no hope for democracy in Lebanon and if there's no hope for democracy in Lebanon, then there's no hope for democracy in the region and no hope for anyone...
...second anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination, his son and political heir bluntly warns that a failure to establish an international tribunal to try his father's killers will grant the Syrian regime a "license to kill" in Lebanon and dash any hopes of democracy spreading in the Middle East. "There is a country and a regime that has been pounding at Lebanon with assassinations and explosions after explosions and killings after killings, which have been going on for over 30 years," Saad Hariri told TIME in an exclusive interview in his heavily guarded home in Beirut...
...grim political situation in Lebanon today stands in marked contrast to the heady optimism, two years ago, of the so-called Cedar Revolution, the month-long series of street demonstrations triggered by the killing of Rafik Hariri and 22 other people in a massive Valentine's Day truck bomb explosion, which tore through Beirut's plush seafront hotel district. Hariri had been on the verge of leading an electoral campaign aimed at ending the dominance of Lebanese politics by neighboring Syria, a goal that many Lebanese believe cost him his life. "The Syrian regime killed my father," said Saad Hariri...
...ensuing popular demonstrations - the so-called Cedar Revolution - put Syria to rout, at least temporarily. The war between Hizballah and Israel last year, however, did huge physical damage to Lebanon. And emboldened by a strengthened alliance with Tehran, Damascus and its Lebanese allies began to fight back, accusing the government of being a tool of the West and attacking what it saw as unwarranted interference by the U.S. in Lebanese affairs. Last November six ministers, including all five Shi'a, resigned from the government, shortly before a cabinet vote to adopt a U.N. draft resolution on creating an international tribunal...