Arabic News Weekly Edition for Lebanon, 8/2/2004
Weekly Edition, Lebanon - Week of August 2, 2004
- Lebanese circles deplore attacks on churches in Iraq Lebanon-Iraq, Politics, 8/4/2004
- Lebanon reinvestigates the case of Imam al-Sader disappearance
The attorney general in Lebanon Adnan Adoum decided to re-open the file of the disappearance of the Lebanese Shiite leader Mousa al-Sader in 1978. Lebanon-Libya, Politics, 8/3/2004 - Syria, Lebanon, celebrate armies day
On the 59th anniversary of the Army Day, Deputy Commander in Chief of the Army and Armed Forces and Minister of Defence Lt. Gen. Hasan Ali Tourkmani who reprsented Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, accompanied by Army and Armed Forces Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Ali Mohammad Habib Mahmoud on Sunday paid a visit to the Martyrs Tomb in Najha. Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 8/2/2004 - Hizbullah denies halting of negotiations with Israel over hostages, efforts to release al-Qintar, other prisoners
The Lebanese Hizbullah party stressed the negotiations with Israel over the release of so far Lebanese prisoners held in the Israeli jails are still continuous and have not reached a deadlock. This, however, following months after a deal for the exchange of hundreds of prisoners between the two sides. Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/2/2004