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Many Lebanese see the hand of Syria behind the instability presently racking Lebanon. A U.N. investigation has implicated senior Syrian officials in the 2005 murder of Rafik Hariri, a former Lebanese prime minister. Although the investigation is still under way, an international tribunal was established by the U.N. Security Council earlier this month to judge Hariri's killers once indictments are issued. Syria has strenuously denied any involvement in Hariri's death and says it will not cooperate with the tribunal, which it regards as a political tool to pressure Damascus into complying with Washington's demands...
...turned the Fatah movement into a band of gangsters and mercenaries. To Palestinians, Hamas seemed disciplined and more honest, and Palestinians blamed the U.S. and Israel, not the Islamists, for the boycott's miseries. Meanwhile, Hamas sought and received backing from two of Israel's chief nemeses, Iran and Syria...
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...TIME. This week, Terje Roed-Larsen, a U.N. Mideast envoy, reported to the U.N. Security Council that the PFLP-GC and Fatah Intifada, a smaller pro-Syrian faction, appeared to be growing stronger in Lebanon due to a "steady flow of weapons and armed elements across the border from Syria." Syria has described the allegations as "lies" with the Syrian state news agency asserting that Roed-Larsen's claims were "misleading" and nothing more than "rumors released for political purposes...
...delegation is about to wrap up a three-week mission to examine security procedures along the Lebanon-Syria border and will conclude that much needs to be done to tighten border security. That could spur U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to recommend dispatching a U.N. observer mission to monitor the porous frontier. Such a decision will anger Damascus, which has repeatedly stated its opposition to an international presence along its border with Lebanon. It will further add pressure on the Palestinian bases, which are linked to Syria via numerous remote trails that criss-cross the mountainous border. The Lebanese...