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...Security Council has approved a resolution demanding that Syria step up its efforts to investigate its involvement in the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister and Kennedy School of Government (KSG) benefactor Rafik Hariri...
...opposition bloc is short of the two-thirds majority required to begin impeaching him. That portends a potential deadlock between a President determined to see out his term and an opposition-dominated government that believes Lahoud was involved in the murder of former Premier Rafik Hariri. "How can you have Lahoud sitting around the same Cabinet table with ministers who are united by the one thought that he is responsible for the death of their historic leader?" asks Chibli Mallat, professor of international law at St. Joseph University in Beirut. And as this stalemate deepens, Lebanese fear that another assassin...
...ASSASSINATED. SAMIR KASSIR, 45, prominent, outspoken Lebanese journalist and frequent critic of Syrian control in Lebanon; in a car bombing attack in Beirut. The first attack on a prominent Lebanese opposition figure since the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February, it came less than a week after the anti-Syrian opposition won a clear victory in the first round of Lebanon's four-part parliamentary elections. Syria, still influential despite its April withdrawal of troops under intense international pressure, denied involvement in the murder, which reignited national outrage and prompted calls for the resignation of Lebanese President...
...complete the withdrawal of its 15,000 troops in Lebanon in time to win favorable comments in a United Nations report due out this week. With a new political era dawning, citizens learned the name of the man who may be their future Prime Minister: Saad Hariri, son of Rafik Hariri, the billionaire tycoon and popular politician whose assassination on Feb. 14 triggered the mass protests and international pressure that forced Syria to pull out its forces. Last week, the Hariri family formally announced that Saad, 35, one of Hariri's four sons from two marriages, would take...
...reportedly questioned the invasion's legality in early March 2003, might have changed his mind and backed the war. Thomas will decide whether the document should remain secret. Open Verdict LEBANON President Emile Lahoud signaled support for an independent investigation into the Feb. 14 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Harari as a U.N. report concluded that Beirut's own inquiry was flawed and inconclusive. The U.N.'s report did not name a culprit in the bombing but cited Lebanese security failures and polarizing tensions with Syria as factors in the killing. Putin's Promise RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin extended...