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...protesters backed off; Siniora had saved the gains of the Cedar Revolution, when, after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005, a million Lebanese in Martyrs' Square demanded the withdrawal of Syrian military forces that had dominated the country for three decades. Lebanon remains deeply divided, however, a fact made plain in January on what some are calling Black Thursday, when a cafeteria shoving match between Sunni and Shi'ite students at a Beirut university set off a day of clashes that tore across the capital...
...risen after years of relative calm. Hizballah, the Shi'ite militia, won praise from Sunnis when Israeli forces left Lebanon in 2000. But after the assassination in February 2005 of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, a Sunni, intra-Muslim antagonism began to harden. Sunnis blamed Hizballah's patron, the Syrian government, for the killing. While faulting Hizballah for provoking last summer's war, many Lebanese Sunnis stood with Hizballah in the face of Israel's onslaught against the country. But any residual Sunni admiration for Hizballah vanished by the end of the year, when Hizballah led a campaign to bring...
...actress with platinum blonde hair and a heavy application of kohl-eyeliner berated a stagehand in the timeless manner of prima donnas the world over. But any sense of show business as usual ended when one of the theater managers came by to collect passports and identity documents. The Syrian government is in the process of tightening its generous residency laws for Iraqi refugees, and the fear of deportation looms larger over the cast than a newspaper critic with a grudge...
...Hariri, the head of the parliamentary majority, believes that the opposition bid is intended to wreck the international tribunal and to save the Syrian regime. "The tribunal is the only protection for Lebanon, not just for politicians but for all Lebanese," Hariri said. "If there is no hope for the international tribunal, then there is no hope for democracy in Lebanon and if there's no hope for democracy in Lebanon, then there's no hope for democracy in the region and no hope for anyone...
...five Shi'a, resigned from the government, shortly before a cabinet vote to adopt a U.N. draft resolution on creating an international tribunal to try those accused of murdering Rafik Hariri. Preliminary findings of a U.N. investigation into the assassination have indicated the involvement of senior officials in the Syrian regime. Since early December, the Hizballah-led opposition has mounted a campaign of street rallies, sit-ins and a general strike to topple the government...