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من ساركوزي الى وديع الخازن تلقى رئيس المجلس العام الماروني الوزير السابق الشيخ وديع الخازن رسالة شكر من الرئيس الفرنسي نيكولا ساركوزي، ردا على رسالة هنأه فيها على انتخابه.وقال ساركوزي "إسمحوا لي ان اتقدم منكم بجزيل الشكر على الرسالة التي ارسلتموها مهنئين بإنتخابي رئيسا للجمهورية الفرنسية". واضاف: "إنه لشرف لي أن ينتخبني الفرنسيون، ممن راهنوا […]
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الخازن: واجتمع صفير الى عضو كتلة "التغيير والاصلاح" النائب فريد الياس الخازن، الذي اشار بعد اللقاء الى انه "تداول مع غبطته في شؤون الساعة لا سيما الشأن الامني الذي يفرض نفسه اليوم وتصدي الجيش للجماعة الارهابية في نهر البارد، مما يوجب علينا دعما كبيرا لجهود الجيش وما يبذله من تضحيات كبيرة، اضافة الى تضحيات الصليب الاحمر الذي قدم شهيدين كانا يقومان بمساعدة المدنيين.
اضاف: هذا العنوان الامني يتطلب من دون شك حكومة وحدة وطنية تساعد على حماية البلد وتحصينه امنيا اضافة الى المسائل العالقة منذ فترة.
وتابع: "هذا العنوان الامني الذي يفرض نفسه على كل المسائل الاخرى هو من مقومات الدولة، اذ لا يمكن لأي دولة في العالم ان تستمر او نظام سياسي يمكن ان يستمر اذا كان التهديد يطال الامن، والتهديد اليوم من نوع آخر لأن الجماعة المسلحة في نهر البارد تختلف في خطرها وكل عملها الارهابي عن تهديدات امنية اخرى، ويتبين يوما بعد يوم ان هذا الخطر موجود ليس فقط في المخيمات بل في خارجها ايضا. امام هذه المسائل، واضافة الى تحصين البلد من اي فراغ قد يحصل من الآن وحتى اشهر عدة مع الاستحقاق الرئاسي يتطلب حكومة وحدة وطنية تساعد على توحيد البلد وتحصين الامن في لبنان وتكون في رأيي الضمانة لعدم حصول اي فراغ دستوري
CNN BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — A Lebanese television anchor’s comments and laughter regarding the assassination of Lebanese anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido have caused a furor and resulted in her firing. The NBN anchor, who has not been identified, did not realize her microphone was on.
"So, why did it take them so long to kill him?" the anchor asked a colleague on live television Wednesday, the same day as Eido’s death. She begins laughing, and the colleague joins in. (Listen to the exchange over images of the deadly bombing 
) Then she says, referring to anti-Syrian parliament member Ahmad Fatfat, "Fatfat should be next. I’m counting them down.""We don’t glee in someone else’s misfortune," the colleague replies. "It’s not gloating," the anchor replied, "but we’ve had enough of them."
In a statement, the station said it had fired the anchor and colleague and apologized for "an unintentional mistake." The statement said, "the comments made do not represent the station in any way."
BEIRUT, Lebanon -Jun 15 Lebanese troops raided an Islamic militant position inside a besieged Palestinian refugee camp, sparking a battle that killed at least four soldiers Friday in renewed fighting.Troops unleashed artillery barrages into the Nahr el-Bared camp on the outskirts of the northern city of Tripoli on Friday as they stepped up their four-week assault against Fatah Islam the al-Qaida-inspired militant group barricaded inside.
For nearly two hours, troops surrounding the camp pounded with heavy artillery and tank fire suspected militant positions, sending black and gray smoke billowing in the sky, security officials said. The intense bombardment started fires in several shell-punctured buildings in the camp.Early Friday, troops assaulted a building where militants were believed to be holed up. In the resulting battle, four soldiers were killed and six others wounded, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.While most of the hundreds of Lebanese troops involved in the siege have stayed outside the camp, small military parties have periodically moved in
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Some thousands mourners chanted anti-Syrian slogans on Thursday at the funeral of a Lebanese legislator killed in a car bomb attack that increased tension with Damascus and deepened Lebanon’s political crisis. Walid Eido was the seventh 14 March figure figure to be assassinated since February 2005 when former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was killed in a suicide truck bombing. Allies of Eido blamed his killing on Damascus and said it was Syria’s response to the establishment of a U.N.-backed court to try suspects in the Hariri attack. There was no Syrian comment but a U.N. envoy visiting Damascus said after talks with officials that Syria condemned Wednesday’s bombing near a Beirut beach club in which Eido, his eldest son, two bodyguards and six passers-by were killed. These accusations lack all credibility. The Syrians are not going to respond every time the finger is pointed without any basis at Damascus," a source close to the Syrian government said.
Eido, a Sunni Muslim, belonged to the majority anti-Syrian parliamentary bloc led by Hariri’s son, Saad al-Hariri, which controls the government."I tell the criminals that, God willing, you will be punished and dragged to jail like lowlives," Hariri told the funeral crowd.Businesses, banks and schools were shut in Beirut and elsewhere as Lebanese observed a national day of mourning.Three ambulances carried coffins draped in Lebanese flags to a Beirut mosque. Mourners carried white-and-blue flags of Hariri’s Future Trend movement and filed past pictures of Eido and his lawyer son with the slogan "Men of Justice.""We have been living in the shadow of savage crimes, but we will not change our path," said one man, who gave his name only as Bassam. "We will stay the course until the truth appears and justice takes its course."The bodies were later laid to rest after final prayers were performed at the mosque.
Khazen.org offers its condoleances to the family of MP Walid Eido and rejects this horrific crime.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) june 13 — A member of the Lebanese parliament was killed in an explosion Wednesday outside a Beirut military sports club in what hospital sources called an assassination. Lawmaker Walid Eido, known as a foe of Syrian involvement in Lebanon, his son, Khalid, and two of his bodyguards were killed, Lebanese media reports said. At least six other people died and 11 were wounded in the explosion, believed to be from a car bomb, in the seaside neighborhood of Manara, according to Lebanese security sources.
Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, an outspoken critic of Syria, blamed Eido’s killing on Damascus, calling it an attempt to reduce the anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanese government. With this bunch of assassins in Damascus, they don’t care about international justice," Jumblatt told CNN International. Syria has denied any involvment in the assasination
Eido, a constitutional expert, was a member of a political bloc led by Saad Hariri, the son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose assassination two years ago sparked widespread protests that led to the ouster of Syrian forces from Lebanon.Eido was a vocal supporter of the U.N. tribunal investigating Hariri’s killing, approved earlier this month by U.N. Security Council..The impact of Wednesday’s blast shattered the windows of nearby buildings, while bystanders sustained injuries from the shrapnel. CNN’s Brent Sadler witnessed wounded people being carried out of one building
One of Eido’s sons was also killed in the blast in which eight other people were killed and 11 were wounded.Here are four facts about Eido: * Born in 1942 in Beirut, he graduated in 1966 and became a magistrate a year later. In the late 1990s he was north Lebanon’s public prosecutor. Eido won a seat in parliamentary elections in 2000 and 2005 and was a member of several parliamentary committees. * Eido was a Sunni Muslim and a member of the majority anti-Syrian parliamentary bloc of Saad al-Hariri, which controls Lebanon’s Western-backed government..* Eido used to be a member of the Sunni Murabetoun militia during Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war.* He was an avid swimmer and the bomb exploded outside his favourite Beirut beach resort, Sporting Club.
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Golf news, Beirut: Lebanese Christians, wary of the rise of militant Islam in their country, will have to retaliate if they are targeted, a leading politician warned yesterday.The warning by former president Ameen Gemayel, also the leader of the Christian-dominated Phalange Party came as Lebanese soldiers and militants entrenched in a refugee camp fought gunbattles yesterday after at least 17 people were killed in an operation to storm rebel positions.
The army, which has encircled Nahr Al Bared, tried to push into the Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon and overrun positions held by Fatah Al Islam militants, which has snipers posted on rooftops. "Are we in Kabul, or Fallujah or Gaza?" asked an angry Gemayel yesterday, referring to prominent strongholds in the region, as he addressed party supporters celebrating the creation of a UN tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri and scores of others including Gemayel’s son Pierre, the minister of industry, in a string of attacks over the past two years.
By HUSSEIN DAKROUB, June 11 Associated Press Writer, BEIRUT, Lebanon – Lebanese troops exchanged sporadic gunfire with Islamic militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Monday as the war against al-Qaida-inspired fighters entered its fourth week. The intermittent fighting came a day after heavy clashes erupted when the Lebanese army stepped up its bombardment of Fatah Islam militants barricaded in the Nahr el-Bared camp on the outskirts of the northern city of Tripoli. The leading An-Nahar newspaper reported Monday that "the Nahr el-Bared battle is headed toward a big escalation," saying the Lebanese military had brought in new reinforcements, including more effective artillery and additional naval forces, while pro-Syrian Palestinian factions had joined Fatah Islam militants in their fight.
Sunday’s clashes came a day after some of the heaviest fighting since June 1, when the Lebanese army
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — Two Red Cross workers were killed Monday at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon as Lebanese forces and Islamic militants battled, a Red Cross representative said.The two were killed when a militant group’s mortar shell struck their vehicle, Lebanese security officials told The Associated Press. On Sunday, heavy clashes with militants who are said to have ties to al Qaeda left six Lebanese soldiers dead. Fifty-nine Lebanese troops have been killed since the fighting began at the Nahr el-Bared camp more than three weeks ago, according to the Lebanese military.
The Red Cross has been trying to get non-combatants out of the camp since the fighting began. Between 3,000 and 5,000 civilians remain in the camp, relief officials told The Daily Star newspaper in Beirut. A Red Cross official told the newspaper evacuations were blocked. "Many people want to leave, but it has been difficult to reach them because of the debris and the unexploded ordnance on the streets," The Daily Star quoted Red Cross spokeswoman Virginia de la Guardia as saying.
