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...spectacle of Eastern Europe-style ?people power? demonstrations erupting in a major Arab capital is a sure sign that momentous changes are afoot in the Middle East. And the street protests in Beirut aimed at forcing out Syrian troops are only the most dramatic of a series of developments that underscore the pressure on the region?s longtime autocrats. Many of those autocrats, of course, are traditional U.S. allies who now find themselves wedged between a mounting democratic clamor from their own people and a cold shoulder from their traditional backers in Washington, whose leader has warned friend...
...alone, we've seen Iraqis voting for a National Assembly, Palestinians voting in presidential and municipal polls (and they'll elect a new legislature in the summer), Saudis (well, male Saudis, anyway) voting in unprecedented elections to relatively toothless municipal councils, Lebanese protestors forcing the resignation of a pro-Syrian government, and last weekend?s proposal by Egypt?s President Hosni Mubarak to open up the traditional single-candidate elections that have endorsed his 24-year reign to other candidates (albeit only those approved by a legislature heavily stacked in the ruling party?s favor). Clearly, the U.S. invasion...
Lebanon’s pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar Karami resigned on Monday amid massive anti-Syria protests in the streets of Beirut, spawned by last month’s assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri—a benefactor of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and an opponent of Syrian involvement in Lebanon...
...Forbes Russia journalist Paul Klebnikov who was gunned down last summer outside his Moscow office. A number of suspects - all from Chechnya - have been detained since September, but Ibragimov is the first to be indicted. Backward, March SYRIA Officials announced the planned redeployment of some of the 14,000 Syrian troops stationed in Lebanon to positions closer to the Syrian border. International pressure on Damascus to withdraw its military forces from Lebanon has increased since the Feb. 14 car bomb in Beirut that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and which the Lebanese opposition has blamed on Syria; Damascus...
...Amin Gemayel: Syria says, ?We will withdraw when the Lebanese government asks us to withdraw.? On 1 September 1983, I sent a letter to then President Hafez Assad calling on the Syrian army to withdraw. Syria did not respond. The situation was more complex. We were in the middle of the Cold War and the Soviet Union was still there, with the balance of power. Maybe (U.S. support) was only words and good intentions. Everybody knows that the Syrian military presence in Lebanon had the blessing and the cover of the United States. It's very clear in the memoirs...