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...Although a Shi'ite, Mahmoud lived in the Sunni neighborhood of Tarek Jdeide. While mourning pictures of Mahmoud plaster the ochre-colored wall of his simple two-story home, most of the drab apartment buildings and storefronts carry posters of slain prime minister Rafik Hariri or of his son, Saad, displaying their allegiance the Sunni political leadership. Mahmoud was killed on his way home from a mass sit-in downtown, where tens of thousands had demanded the ouster of the government...
...having his fighters stage a cross-border raid in July and kidnap two Israeli soldiers. War damage in Lebanon is assessed at $3.6 billion. More than 1,200 Lebanese died, and 3,700 were wounded. Another 974,184 were left homeless. Says parliamentarian Saad Hariri, son of the slain former Prime Minister: "When it starts raining and getting cold, people will realize what a huge mistake it was for Hizballah to start this war." What's more, the olive groves and hills of southern Lebanon are sown with more than 1 million bomblets from Israeli cluster bombs, say U.N. experts...
...inflict considerable and prolonged suffering on the Lebanese people in a futile attempt to transform the country’s mix of competing political creeds into one norm. Based on this understanding, the world should—temporarily—abandon the idea of an international tribunal for the slain Lebanese leader Rafik al-Hariri, because it will most likely lead to more hostility. Instead, the international community should focus on helping Lebanon cure itself of the evil that, in recent history, we have seen its people inflict on each other...
...president of the governing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), has the support of a vocal majority among his party's parliamentarians, and his popularity among conservative voters dwarfs that of any other possible contenders on the right. But President Jacques Chirac doesn't like him. And as many slain rivals have learned, Chirac can be a deadly enemy...
...When the recently slain terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi executed American Nicholas Berg, he went out of his way to specify that the gruesome murder was an act of revenge for crimes committed by the U.S. military against Muslims at the prison. Both Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, use events at the prison to explain their calls for Holy War against the U.S. "Al-Qaeda and other Jihadis still cite Abu Ghraib to demonstrate what they call U.S. crimes against Muslims," notes Rita Katz, director and co-founder of the SITE Institute, who has made...