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Analysis & Reports
May 06, 2011 22:08
The difference between the situations in Syria and Libya is that the Syrian government might still come around and pursue a reform agenda, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday.
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April 20, 2011 22:06
Syria long has been accused of stirring trouble in the territories of its neighbors by exporting unwanted people across porous borders — Kurdish separatists into Turkey, Sunni insurgents into Iraq and Palestinian militants and Al-Qaeda sympathizers into Lebanon.
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April 14, 2011 22:15
Revolutions don't start with a single dramatic event, such as the destruction of a church or a man's self-immolation.
Friday, 15 April 2011
First, to reports from the revolutionary front lines in Syria, in the same imperfect, but brave, English in which they were written less than 24 hours ago...
"Yesterday morning I went to the square to demonstrate, I arranged it with guys on Facebook, I don't know them, but we share the same ambition of freedom, that night I was awake until 6am watching the news, it was horrible what's happening in Syria, the security forces slaughter people as if aniamals !!!...
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April 12, 2011 22:47
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 12, 2011
Statement by the Press Secretary on Syria
We are deeply concerned by reports that Syrians who have been wounded by their government are being denied access to medical care. The escalating repression by the Syrian government is outrageous, and the United States strongly condemns the continued efforts to suppress peaceful protesters.
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March 14, 2011 09:44
Dark Secrets
The sordid history of Syria's collaboration with Qaddafi.
The uprisings sweeping the Middle East have started to blow down some very dark doors—the doors that lead to the dungeons and prisons where Arab security services do their work.In Alexandria and Cairo, Egyptian protesters broke into the offices of state security, where they discovered some of the tools and torture devices used to make prisoners more pliant. Perhaps more important, they unearthed files detailing the nature of the work, and on whose behalf it was done.
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February 22, 2011 19:21
Lebanon: Prime Minister-designate briefs UN envoy on efforts to form new government
22 February 2011 –The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon met today with Prime Minister-designate Najib Miqati, who briefed him on his continuing efforts concerning the formation of a new government.
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February 09, 2011 21:32
Obama ripped in Congress over Egypt, Lebanon
(AFP)
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama's administration was the target of harsh criticism in Congress Wednesday for not doing enough to support democratic reforms in Egypt and Lebanon.
"In both Egypt and Lebanon, we have failed to effectively leverage US assistance in support of peaceful, pro-democracy forces and to help build strong, accountable, independent, democratic institutions as a bulwark against the instability that is now spreading throughout much of the region," said Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen at a hearing of the Foreign Affairs Committee she heads.
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January 25, 2011 22:32
Clinton: Hezbollah govt in Lebanon bad for US ties
Jan. 25, 2011, 1:13 p.m. EST
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Tuesday that formation of a Hezbollah-dominated government in Lebanon will mean changes in the U.S. relations with the country.
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January 14, 2011 23:21
STATEMENT BY SENATOR McCAIN REGARDING THE CRISIS IN LEBANON
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) made the following statement regarding the current crisis in Lebanon:
“The collapse of Lebanon's democratic government clearly demonstrates the desire of Hezbollah to thwart justice and rule Lebanon despite losing the last election. The threat of violence has no place in a democracy.
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January 11, 2011 22:59
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called Saudi King Abdullah on Tuesday, wishing him a speedy recovery from recent surgery and saying he wanted to keep working with Saudi Arabia and others to stabilize the situation in Lebanon, the White House said.
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January 09, 2011 15:17
As ambassador to Lebanon from 2004 to 2008, I was the person whom Al Akhbar’s editorial chairman, Ibrahim al-Amine, hoped to upset every morning with his newspaper’s coverage (“A Rarity in the Region, a Lebanese Paper Dares to Provoke,” news article, Dec. 29).
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January 01, 2011 21:24
Commenting on the recent appointment of a US ambassador to Syria US ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly said on Friday : “President Barack Obama had announced in June of 2009, his intention to restore the U.S. ambassador to Syria. Following the nomination of Robert Ford on February 16, 2010, Obama waited 10 months for the US Senate to take the necessary measures in confirming his nomination .
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December 31, 2010 02:02
U.S. President Barack Obama has used a controversial strategy to appoint the first U.S. ambassador to Syria in nearly six years.
The White House announced Wednesday it had appointed career diplomat Robert Ford to the post.
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December 12, 2010 08:54
December 12, 2010 ⋅ 12:25 am ⋅US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has met with UN special envoy for Lebanon Terje Roed-Larsen to discuss the current situation in Lebanon, the State Department said Saturday.
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June 03, 2010 08:00
WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key administration posts:
• Maura Connelly, Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon, Department of State
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May 28, 2010 10:48
Hezbollah is running weapons, including surface-to-surface missiles, from secret arms depots in Syria to its bases in Lebanon, according to security sources.
The Times has been shown satellite images of one of the sites, a compound near the town of Adra, northeast of Damascus, where militants have their own living quarters, an arms storage site and a fleet of lorries reportedly used to ferry weapons into Lebanon.
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May 24, 2010 10:54
The President met today with Prime Minister Saad Hariri of Lebanon. The President commended the Prime Minister for his leadership and for carrying on his father’s legacy, and congratulated him on Lebanon’s term as President of the U.N. Security Council, where Lebanon is contributing to upholding international peace and security.
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December 22, 2009 13:28
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised Lebanon's sovereign-credit
ratings and gave them a positive outlook because of banking resilience and the
expectation of political stability in the medium term.
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December 19, 2009 23:16
On Saturday, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri traveled to Damascus for a meeting with Syrian president Bashar Asad, the man widely believed to have ordered the assassination of his father, former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri. The 2005 murder sparked the Cedar Revolution, a mass protest movement that resulted in the end of the thirty-year Syrian military occupation of Lebanon, and swept the pro-West March 14th coalition to power. Although March 14 again triumphed over the Iranian and Syrian-backed Hizballah-led opposition in elections this past June, Washington's allies in Beirut are now facing a crisis. Hariri's trip to Damascus represents the return of Syrian influence to Lebanon, and perhaps, the end of the Cedar Revolution.
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December 16, 2009 21:10
Damascus/Brussels, 16 December 2009: U.S. diplomatic engagement with Syria risks losing momentum if it fails to build upon several potentially promising changes in Damascus’s policy.
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