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Speaking from the Grand Serail, the seat of the Lebanese government in Beirut, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora had something dramatic to say in his interview with TIME. He had just gotten off the phone with Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders to thank them for their help in establishing an international tribunal to bring plotters in the assassination of one of his predecessors to justice. Now, he says, Lebanese authorities have evidence that Syrian intelligence operatives are behind the ongoing violent clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli as part...
...Siniora's government believes that Fatah al-Islam is a Syrian proxy, though Syrian officials angrily reject the accusations. But whatever the truth about Fatah al-Islam, its sudden, violent birth amounts to a warning about dangers ahead for a Middle East where political conflicts have for too long remained unsolved. It is conventional wisdom that Lebanon is the stage where Middle East factions act out their disputes. In the eruption of killings in Tripoli, however, Lebanon is just another player in a larger, unfolding drama...
...root once again. Not even one year after a vicious war between Israel and the militants of Hizballah, which devastated whole regions of the south and Shi'ite neighborhoods of Beirut, Lebanon seemed once more to be at the mercy of the gun. The government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora believes that the sudden surge of violence is linked to moves by members of the United Nations Security Council to appoint an international tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005. Though Syria has denied any involvement in Hariri's death, many believe...
...Qaeda but was planted in Lebanon by Syrian military intelligence to cause instability. "Syrian intelligence has been working with groups like this for 20 years. It's an old practice," says Radwan al-Sayyed, a professor of Islamic studies at the Lebanese University and a speechwriter for Siniora. But others argue that blaming Syria for all Lebanon's problems is the default position of the March 14 coalition and the government, and that Fatah al-Islam is a genuine Islamist organization dedicated to the Palestinian cause. Tripoli resident Mohsen Mohammed, 35, an adherent of the strict Salafi school of Sunni...
...emergence of Fatah al-Islam six months ago fed fears that al-Qaeda was getting a foothold in Lebanon. But Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government has accused Syria of sponsoring the group to sow strife. Syria denies the charge, although the faction recently broke away from a Palestinian organization formed by Syrian authorities...