Dr. Benny Peiser09.05.2008 10:40
Westliche Appeasement Politik immer erfolgreicher
Wer aus der Vergangenheit nicht lernt, ist verdammt, sie zu wiederholen: Shiite opposition gunmen seized control of large areas of Beirut’s Muslim sector from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday, in street battles that left 11 dead, security officials said. With top leaders Saad Hariri of the Sunnis and Walid Jumblatt of the Druse besieged in their residences in Muslim western Beirut, officials of the pro-government majority called an emergency meeting of legislators in a mountain town in the Christian heartland northeast of Beirut, said LBC TV, a pro-government Christian station.
Prime Minister Fuad Saniora is believed to be holed up at his office in downtown Beirut, which is heavily protected by troops and police. A Hezbollah protest encampment that has been there for 17 months near his office has not made any move against the complex. In a sign of the collapse of the pro-government forces in the face of the onslaught by the Iranian-backed Shiite Hezbollah and Amal groups in the Lebanese capital’s Muslim sector, the TV station of Hariri’s Future Movement was forced off the air">In a sign of the collapse of the pro-government forces in the face of the onslaught by the Iranian-backed Shiite Hezbollah and Amal groups in the Lebanese capital’s Muslim sector, the TV station of Hariri’s Future Movement was forced off the air.
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