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...summons came down from Damascus last August, informing Rafiq Hariri, then the Prime Minister of Lebanon, that he was wanted for a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad. For years Hariri had strived to maintain cordial relations with Lebanon's more powerful neighbor, acquiescing to Syria's domination of Lebanese politics as the price of Syria's role in ending Lebanon's 15-year civil war. But by last summer Assad suspected that Hariri was behind an international campaign to end Syria's occupation of Lebanon, and so he decided to warn Hariri not to oppose Syrian plans to reassert...
...forces are hitting back, to be sure, having launched a new surprise operation in Western Iraq deploying 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops to hit the insurgents in their heartland shortly after the large scale "Operation Matador" that saw a similar number sweeping villages near the Syrian border. And there were reports on a web site associated with al-Qaeda's Iraq chapter announcing that the group's local leader, Musab al-Zarqawi, had been wounded in battle with U.S. forces. But U.S. commanders weren't rushing to confirm those reports, and it's unlikely that even if Zarqawi dies...
...near Alleppey, is an excellent place to sample this kaleidoscopic cooking. Besides fresh seafood, you'll enjoy typical dishes like banana flower with grated coconut and lemon rice with beetroot chutney. A sister restaurant in Fort Cochin, The History, tel: (91) 484 221 5461, specializes in Arab, Syrian-Christian, Anglo-Indian and Jewish recipes. Blandness is about the only thing not on the menu...
...near Alleppey, is an excellent place to sample this kaleidoscopic cooking. Besides fresh seafood, you'll enjoy typical dishes like banana flower with grated coconut and lemon rice with beetroot chutney. A sister restaurant in Fort Cochin, The History, tel: (91) 484 221 5461, specializes in Arab, Syrian-Christian, Anglo-Indian and Jewish recipes. Blandness is the one thing not on the menu...
...Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati formed a caretaker government last week, and gave assurances that parliamentary elections will be held by the May 31 constitutional deadline. At least for now that seems enough to head off another round of mass demonstrations planned by opposition leaders, who had accused the Syrian government of seeking to delay balloting that its Lebanese allies are almost certain to lose. In a further sign of Syria's diminishing influence, Jamil al-Sayyed, Lebanon's feared pro-Syrian intelligence chief, and Ali Hajj, head of the country's internal security forces, stepped aside. Meanwhile, Syria...