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...against militants holed up in Nahr al-Bared. The Lebanese government 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 2005 assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Though Syria has denied any involvement, many believe it was behind the killing. "The pro-Syrian opposition has reached a complete political deadlock and the international tribunal is about to be passed by the United Nations. That's the reason why we are seeing this violence," Marwan Hamade, Lebanese minister of telecoms...
...Blair to found Europe's Rapid Reaction Force as an alternative to overtaxed U.S. troops in responding to security crises. More recently, after the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister and personal friend Rafik Hariri in 2005, Chirac teamed up with Washington to co-author a U.N. push to break Syria's hold on Lebanon, and to seek justice for those behind Hariri's murder. And despite the major setback he suffered in 2004 when French voters rejected the European Union constitution he supported, Chirac's strong pro-European positions made him a vital partner for German leaders seeking to push...
...extraordinary’ support that the country has received from the U.S. and other Western governments.” Matory’s comment indicates that he is less bothered by the crimes of countries that the U.S. does not support, like Iran and Syria; while at the same time, he completely disregards the importance of supporting our only democratic ally in the Middle East...
...Rice is determined to avoid adding a picture of herself with Syria's foreign minister to Assad's brag-book, at least until he shuts down the pipeline of Sunni militants that runs through Syria into Iraq...
...transit point for violent extremists going to Iraq is dangerous for them." (The strongest internal challenge to the Syrian regime remains that of radical Sunni Islamists organized in the Muslim Brotherhood.) U.S. officials add that if violence in Iraq abates, so will the flood of Iraqi refugees into Syria...