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Nasrullah calls for halting pressure on Syria
Nasrullah stressed before scores of thousands of participants on World Day In Solidarity With Jerusalem, held in southern Beirut, his party's stand beside Syria in challenging what he called "the American and Zionist aims," accusing the international community of supporting Israel at the expense of the Palestinians, the Lebanese and the Arabs.
Lebanon-Syria-UN, Politics, 10/29/2005

Hoss warns against foreign intervention
Former Lebanese Premier, Salim al-Hoss, has warned against the dangers of foreign intervention in the internal affairs of Lebanon and of using the UN Security Council 1559 for pressuring Lebanon to cause division in the country.
Lebanon-Palestine-UN, Politics, 10/29/2005

Alleviated Lebanese border measures
News reports in Lebanon said that the Lebanese army lessened the restrictions it had imposed three days ago on bases for the Palestinian organizations People's Front For Liberation Of Palestine - General Command and the Fatah Intifada uprising near the Lebanese borders with Syria, following the killing of one Lebanese surveyor who was demarcating the borders.
Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 10/29/2005

Washington, Paris for strong resolution against Syria
Both the USA and France said that they are confident that the UN Security Council will adopt a strong draft formula against Syria over the file of the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, during the session to be held on Monday at the level of foreign ministers, while China and Russia have reservations about such action.
Syria-Lebanon-USA, Politics, 10/29/2005

Saad al-Hariri wants killers of his father tried
The chairman of the majority block in the Lebanese parliament Saad al-Hariri said on Thursday that he will not oppose the imposition of sanctions against officials accused in the assassination crime of his father, the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
Lebanon, Politics, 10/28/2005

Palestinian organization in Lebanon detains Lebanese military men
Lebanese military build up around the Palestinian camps in which tanks were used came after the killing of on Lebanese land surveyor while he was carrying demarcation operation between Syria and Lebanon at the directives of the Lebanese army, and the army was told that the fire was opened at the man from a base for the Fatah the uprising organization, a matter which was denied by the group.
Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 10/28/2005

Lebanon rules out braking into Palestinian groups bases
This area which includes bases drilled in the mountains are witnessing tension since the withdrawal of the Syrian forces in April this year, and following Lebanese statements indicating the involvement of Palestinian members in smuggling persons and weapons from Syria to Lebanon.
Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 10/28/2005

Person at $800 million Lebanese banking scandal center
The general appeals court in Beirut claimed on Thursday against Rana Qleilat who was released but still is being prevented from traveling outside the country over a financial corruption scandal connected to the Syrian security departments.
Lebanon-Syria, Economics, 10/28/2005

Lebanese siege of Palestinian positions
The Lebanese army on Wednesday besieged military positions run by the People's Front For Liberation Of Palestine- General Command, including a network of tunnels dug in the mountains in Sultan Yaqoub ( Jacob) area in the eastern Bekaa area.
Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 10/27/2005

UN chief: Lebanon detained Palestinians infiltrated from Syria
The UN secretary general Kofi Annan said that the Lebanese forces started a campaign to prevent the flow of weapons and persons from Syria to the armed groups in Lebanon
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 10/27/2005

Bolton asks for interrogating President al-Assad
The US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, said that the UN investigation committee to the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri should be allowed to interrogate every Syrian official in the course of its investigation, regardless to their rank.
Syria-Lebanon-USA, Politics, 10/27/2005

Washington Post: Syria will try any Syrian involved in Hariri's assassination
The Washington Post said that the Syrian President Basharf al-Assad vowed in a message addressed to Washington, London, and Paris to try any Syrian proved to be involved in the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri, showing readiness to cooperate with the UN investigation committee.
Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 10/27/2005

Lebanese figure rejects escalation against Syria
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 10/27/2005

Syria: unveiling Hariri assassination is in our interest
Syria's permanent Envoy to the United Nations Faisal Miqdad on Tuesday said the report of the UN investigation team into the assassination of former Lebanese Premier Rafiq al-Hariri "was basically influenced by the political circumstances which prevailed in Lebanon following the crime."
Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 10/26/2005

Mehlis call for a Syrian initiated investigation
The chief of the UN investigation team into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister, judge Detlive Mehlis said that the committee's report is final and need more time to be completed.
Syria-Lebanon-UN, Politics, 10/26/2005

Al-Assad calls Putin on Mehlis report
Syria on Tuesday stressed that the report of the international investigation team into the assassination of former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri "should not be used by some UN Security Council members for purposes that wouldn't serve the target for which the international committee was formed."
Syria-Lebanon-Russia, Politics, 10/26/2005

France, USA suggest sanctions against suspects in Hariri killing
Both the USA and France circulated a draft resolution at the UN asking Syria to detain any suspect Syrian in the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
Syria-Lebanon-USA, Politics, 10/26/2005

UN investigation into Hariri assassination faces threats
The UN reported that the head of the United Nations commission which found evidence pointing at both Lebanese and Syrian involvement in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri told the Security Council today the team had received threats and the already high risks it faced would increase further as it completes its work.
Lebanon-Syria-UN, Politics, 10/26/2005

Demonstration in Damascus, Aleppo against US threats, Mehlis report
"Your national unity is the rock on which all the conspiracies that Syria has witnessed were broken. This unity is the guarantee to foil the new series of these schemes that target the national unity and to destabilize your self-confidence and capabilities to surmount these pressures directed against your will and national dignity and to sow dissension and division and as well to destabilize the region," the statement said.
Syria-Lebanon-UN, Politics, 10/25/2005

Shiite coalition in Lebanon oppose sanctions on Syria, Christian concern for presidency
In Beirut, the Shiite coalition taking part in the Lebanese government announced opposition to imposing sanctions on Syria because of the UN investigation report which pertains to the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 10/25/2005

US actions against Syria on UN assassination investigation report
On the type of measures the UN may take against Syria, Rice said "there are many options on the table."
Syria-Lebanon-USA, Politics, 10/25/2005

France seeks a Security Council resolution for Syrian cooperation
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy on Monday said his country "hopes the UN Security Council will issue a resolution that calls on Syria to fully cooperate with the international investigation into the assassination of Lebanese former Premier Rafiq Hariri."
Syria-Lebanon-France, Politics, 10/25/2005

Blair does not rule out sanctions on Syria
The British prime minister Tony Blair has not ruled out the imposition of sanctions in Syria because of the UN report on the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, stressing the graveness of what is stated in the report.
Syria-Lebanon-UK, Politics, 10/25/2005

Michel Awn phones Qatahfi
Libya-Lebanon, Politics, 10/25/2005

Syria's response to UN report accusations on Hariri assassination
Syria underlined on Saturday that she has fully cooperated with the UN investigating committee on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri while deploring the report does not imply a note contrary to her position in this respect.
Syria-Lebanon-UN, Politics, 10/24/2005

Syria's NPF criticizes Mehlis report
It added that "what is new and surprising in the report is that it went so far in dependence on suspicions and statements attributed to people who lack minimum level of credibility and relied on preconceived ideas that led to conclusions irrelevant to any evidences
Syria-Lebanon-UN, Politics, 10/24/2005

Nasrullah does not oppose investigation extension, Sinoura calls Lahoud to resign
While security measures and political consultations continued in Lebanon in light of the report of the UN investigation committee into the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister Fouad Sinioura launched a remarkable position on Sunday when he recommended the Lebanese President Emil Lahoud to resign from his post.
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 10/24/2005

Junblat rejects punishing all Syrians, for acts of few
The Lebanese Druze leader and parliamentarian Walid Junblat rejected likely sanctions against Syria, over the involvement of some officials in the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, to cover the entire Syrian people, and considered that the common history between the Lebanese and Syrian people is stronger than "the handful of evils."
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 10/24/2005

Syrian lawyers letter to UN chief on Hariri assassination report
"The assassination of Hariri was a crime that targeted not only a leading prominent figure known in Lebanon, the Arab arena and the world but also was meant to assassinate the Syrian-Lebanese relationship which constituted one of the main factors of stability in the region," it stressed.
Syria-Lebanon-UN, Politics, 10/24/2005

Syria denounces statement of Saad al-Hariri
It depicted the position of Lebanese MP Hariri as a "flagrant inference," and "rejected provocation," and asked how could a man like Saad Hariri, who is just a MP in Lebanon, speak about a sovereign state that gave the Lebanese people all effort and support to build peace and keep its security and stability.
Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 10/24/2005

Lebanese security detains Mahmoud Abdul Al
In the course of the security detentions concerning the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, the Lebanese security forces arrested Mahmoud Abdul Al, a member of the Islamic charity projects society, known as al-Ahbash.
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 10/24/2005

Deputy foreign minister denies threatening Hariri
Syria's Deputy Foreign Minster Walid al-Muallem denied he had threatened former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, as it was claimed in the report of the UN investigation committee into the assassination of Hariri.
Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 10/24/2005

Egypt stance on the UN Hariri assassination report
Egyptian Presidency Spokesman Sulieman Awad said that his country is studying the report of the UN investigation Committee on Assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri like many other countries, asserting that the first reading of the report gives many possibilities.
Egypt-Lebanon, Politics, 10/24/2005

Jebril describes UN - Hariri report as political
Secretary General of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General Commandment, Ahmad Jebril, described the UN report on the investigation on the killing of former Lebanese Premier Rafiq al-Hariri as a political report and holds many contradictions and mysteries.
Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 10/24/2005

Senior Lebanese officials criticize Mehlis report
Lebanese Member of Parliament Marwan Fares has described the report of the international investigation Committee on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri as a political report "which aims at putting pressures on Syria due to its legitimate and firm stances."
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 10/24/2005

Palestinian fire fight by Ein al-Helweh refugee camps
Lebanese parliamentarian Osama Saad, the chairman of the Naserite people's organization, accused foreign sides of fabricating reasons that resulted in the eruption of armed clashes near Ein al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp, near Sidon, south Lebanon on Sunday.
Lebanon-Palestine, Local, 10/24/2005

Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese Airspace
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 10/24/2005


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