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...elected President. The killing of a senior officer in the widely revered Lebanese army has stunned a country that has grown bitterly accustomed to assassinations and bombings over the past four years. He is the ninth prominent Lebanese to have been killed since February 2005, when Rafik Hariri, a former Prime Minister, died in a truck bomb explosion. A United Nations investigation into the Hariri murder suggested that Syrian officials were involved...
...more than two years, Lebanon's so-called Cedar Revolutionaries - the country's anti-Syrian politicians - have helped lead the Bush Administration's charge to promote democracy and curb anti-Western extremism in the Middle East. Since the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which sparked the anti-Syrian protests in Beirut - dubbed by Washington as the Cedar Revolution - and ended three decades of Syrian domination, the U.S. has backed the pro-Western government in Lebanon in hopes of denying Syria (and Iran) influence in the country...
This has been a crisis nearly three years in the making. It began with the assassination in February 2005 of Rafik Hariri, a former Lebanese Prime Minister. His death, which many Lebanese pinned on neighboring Syria, triggered mass demonstrations in Beirut which, along with U.S. pressure, forced Damascus to end its direct domination of Lebanon. A Western-backed government was elected in June...
...accord on Lebanon as well, but it was under Chirac that the French took a major role in helping the U.S. roll back Syrian influence there in the wake of the murder of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri...
...Ghanem, 64, had returned to Beirut from the Gulf only two days earlier. Like many anti-Syrian legislators, he had spent the summer months abroad out of safety concerns. Eight prominent anti-Syrian figures have been killed in a series of assassinations since February 2005 when former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri died in a massive truck bomb blast. Many Lebanese have blamed Syria for the killings and an ongoing United Nations investigation has suggested that Damascus was responsible. Syria has denied any involvement in the assassinations...