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...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 of an effort to destabilize the country. Siniora also says that Syrian elements, pursuing what he calls "a clear determination to subjugate the country," could be responsible for political killings in Lebanon including...
...Siniora accused the Syrian regime of trying to intimidate Lebanese from supporting the court and said that the pursuit of justice entailed risks, including "instability in the country... planting bombs here and there." But Siniora says that his government is determined to push forward with the tribunal as well as uproot the Islamist faction with alleged Syrian links at the center of the Tripoli fighting to prove Lebanon's independence. "Otherwise," he said, "everybody can dare to slap us on the face." The message "to all criminals or those who are against the state," he added, would be "that they...
Given that the first Mehlis report implicated some top Syrian officials, does the Syrian regime have reason to be worried about the tribunal? The thing that really bothers me [is] why the Syrians have been taking this attitude of not cooperating with the investigation and with the establishment of the tribunal...
Shouldn't the Syrian regime feel targeted? It might have been that certain groups within the regime were involved. I am in no position to say. But there are indications that certain people were involved in one way or another. But I am in no position to accuse. That will be for the tribunal to say. The problem is that those who have been behind this crime did not stop. How many malicious acts were made in order to destabilize the country? This process shows that there is a clear determination to subjugate the country. This is what really worries...
Syria, Lebanese officials contend, is attempting to derail U.N. efforts to set up a tribunal that could try Syrian officials implicated in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. If that's true, Lebanon, a year after the Israel-Hizballah war, could experience another scorching summer...