| May 21, 2008 | -
Lebanese factions met in Qatar and gave Hezbollah veto power in Lebanon's new national unity cabinet. It was, said a U.S. State Department representative, “really a welcome development.”
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BBC News
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| May 9, 2008 | - The U.S.-backed government of Lebanon tried to dismantle Hezbollah's extensive telecommunications network there, and Hezbollah temporarily seized half of Beirut. “The hand that touches the weapons of the resistance,” said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, “will be cut off.”
| Source 1:
BBC
Source 2:
Haaretz
Source 3:
NYT
Source 4:
Haaretz
Source 5:
The Washington Post
Source 6:
Bloomberg
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| November 25, 2007 | - There was a power vacuum in Lebanon after the Parliament failed to elect a new president.
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New York Times
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| May 20, 2007 | - Troops in northern Lebanon were fighting against Fatah Islam, a splinter group from a Syrian-backed
Palestinian splinter group.
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BBC News
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| March 22, 2007 | - John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, discussing last summer's conflict in Lebanon, said that he was “damned proud” of U.S. efforts to delay a cease-fire.
| Source:
BBC
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| February 25, 2007 | - Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah told an interviewer he believed the United States had embarked on a secret plan to break up Iraq,
Lebanon, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, before doing the same to the Arab nations of northern Africa. “Israel will be the most important and the strongest state in a region that has been partitioned into ethnic and confessional states that are in agreement with each other,” he said. ”This is the new Middle East.”
| Source:
New Yorker
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| December 1, 2006 | - A “bizarrely festive” atmosphere was noted on the streets of Beirut, where one million Hezbollah supporters rallied for the ouster of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 3, 2006 | - The White House announced that there is mounting evidence that Iran and Syria are conspiring with Hezbollah to overthrow the government of Lebanon.
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The Age
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| October 31, 2006 | - Due to the Lebanon war, Israel was facing an eight-fold increase in the cost of marijuana.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| October 1, 2006 | -
Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon, where, according to the UN, up to a million cluster “bomblets” remain unexploded.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 3, 2006 | -
Israeli troops were being attacked by Lebanese wildlife.
| Source:
UPI
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| August 30, 2006 | -
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert refused to lift a seven-week-old blockade on Lebanon,.
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New York Times
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| August 25, 2006 | -
French president Jacques Chirac said that sending 15,000 United Nations troops to Lebanon was “excessive.”
| Source:
International Herald Tribune.
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| August 24, 2006 | - The Israeli Foreign Ministry rejected the idea that its conduct in the war with Lebanon was “outside international norms or international legality concerning the rules of war.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 23, 2006 | -
Syrian President Bashar Assad called the deployment of international troops along the Syria-Lebanon border a “hostile” act.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
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| August 21, 2006 | -
Israeli troops detained a Hamas legislator in the West Bank and engaged Hezbollah guerillas in a shootout near Boudai, Lebanon.
| Source:
The Wall Street Journal
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| August 14, 2006 | -
Hezbollah accepted a U.N. ceasefire resolution, and agreed to allow Lebanese and U.N. troops to serve as peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| August 10, 2006 | -
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it was willing to work with Hezbollah to aid suffering Lebanese animals.
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CNSNews.com
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| August 3, 2006 | -
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah boasted that his forces were inflicting “maximum casualties” and warned Israel that if it “bombed our capital Beirut, we will bomb the capital of your usurping entity”; he also called on his fellow Arab leaders to “be men for just one day.”
| Source 1:
NY Times
Source 2:
CNN
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| August 1, 2006 | -
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted that the war with Lebanon would continue, and the Lebanese government rejected an internationally-brokered peace plan, claiming it favored Israel.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| August 1, 2006 | -
Lebanon's
stock exchange reopened.
| Source 1:
NY Times
Source 2:
BBC
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| July 31, 2006 | - After an Israeli bombing raid killed 54 people, including 37 children, in the Lebanese village of Qana, Beirut residents set fire to a U.N. headquarters.
| Source:
Daily Star (Lebanon)
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| July 28, 2006 | - The mayor of Beirut said war with Israel was bad for the environment.
| Source:
Globe and Mail
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| July 26, 2006 | -
Israeli bombs struck a U.N. post in southern Lebanon, killing four peacekeepers. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said the targeting was “apparently deliberate,” and Olmert called Annan's comments “premature and erroneous.”
| Source 1:
BBC
Source 2:
Al Jazeera
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| July 25, 2006 | - The Israeli military deployed llamas in southern Lebanon.
| Source 1:
Ynetnews
Source 2:
JTA
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| July 24, 2006 | -
Israel insisted it had no immediate plans for a large-scale ground invasion of Lebanon, although it seized two Lebanese towns, called up 10,000 troops to the border, and called thousands of reservists to active duty. Almost 400 people (362 Lebanese, 37 Israelis) have been killed so far in the conflict. European governments debated the proportionality of these deaths, and Syrian president Bashar Assad told the international community to stop procrastinating and broker a ceasefire.
| Source:
NY Times and The Australian
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| July 22, 2006 | -
Lebanese were receiving late-night phone calls from the Israeli government. “I just wished I could talk back to the voice,” said one woman, “but it was a recorded message.” Hezbollah responded by sending mobile-phone text messages to dozens of Israelis.
| Source 1:
SFGate.com
Source 2:
Haaretz
Source 3:
Reuters via thestaronline
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| July 19, 2006 | - One thousand Americans were evacuated from Beirut aboard a 38-year-old cruise ship named the Orient Queen.
| Source 1:
BBC via Google News
Source 2:
Washington Post and Cruises.about.com
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| July 13, 2006 | - War erupted between Hezbollah and Israel after the Lebanese militia launched Operation Truthful Promise against Israel by crossing the border and capturing two Israeli soldiers. The operation was staged in response to Operation Summer Rains, in which Israel occupied Gaza and destroyed a large portion of the civilian infrastructure. Israel countered Operation Truthful Promise by staging Operation Just Reward against Lebanon, bombing roads, bridges, power stations, fuel depots, ports, and airports, and killing numerous civilians. Hezbollah bombed Haifa, surprising Israel with the range of its rockets and killing at least eight civilians. “You wanted an open war,” said Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah in a recorded message, “and we are heading for an open war. . . . The surprises that I have promised you will start now.”
| Source 1:
The Daily Star
Source 2:
Times Online
Source 3:
Newsday
Source 4:
Times of India
Source 5:
Zaman Online
Source 6:
AP via Yahoo!
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| July 7, 2006 | - The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security claimed to have foiled a plot by foreign terrorists, in Lebanon, to bomb the Holland Tunnel in New York.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 5, 2006 | - Riots erupted over newspaper cartoons, printed first in Denmark and subsequently throughout Europe, that caricatured the prophet Muhammad. Demonstrators rallied in Syria, where they attacked the Danish and Norwegian embassies, and in Lebanon, where they set the Danish embassy on fire. "They should have respected our religion," said a Lebanese protester. Iran recalled its ambassador from Denmark, and protesters outside the United Nations in New York City chanted, "shame, shame."
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Newsday
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| February 3, 2006 | -
Israel bombed Lebanon.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 30, 2005 | - A cleric in Lebanon issued a fatwa banning the shooting of guns into the air.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 4, 2005 | - In Beirut, a bomb killed Samir Kassir, a Lebanese journalist who opposed the Syrian occupation. Hundreds of people attended his funeral.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 27, 2005 | - Brigadier General Jay Hood, Guantánamo Bay's commander, said that an investigation at Guantánamo Bay had uncovered five incidents of Koran abuse, but none involved toilets; protesters rallied against Koran abuse in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Malaysia, and in Lebanon, where they chanted “America is the biggest Satan.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 13, 2005 | -
Israel and Lebanon shelled each other.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 10, 2005 | - Tens of thousands of Lebanese held a mass jog through Beirut to show national unity.
| Source:
AP
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| April 4, 2005 | -
Syria vowed to be out of Lebanon by the end of April.
| Source:
Arab News
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| March 14, 2005 | - Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese came out to rally against Syria.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 9, 2005 | - In Beirut, at least five hundred thousand rallied to show their support for Syria.
| Source:
The Age
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| March 7, 2005 | -
Syria agreed to move its troops into eastern Lebanon, but the U.S. State Department warned that this is not enough.
| Source:
Guardian
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| March 4, 2005 | - President George W. Bush demanded that Syria pull out of Lebanon.
| Source:
New York Post
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| February 28, 2005 | - The pro-Syrian government of Lebanon dissolved itself.
| Source:
ABC News
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| February 21, 2005 | - Speaking in Brussels, Bush called on Syria to end its occupation of Lebanon; he also said it was time for Europe and the United States to work together.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| February 17, 2005 | -
Syria denied any role in the assassination of Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon and critic of the Syrian occupation, who was killed in a Beirut bombing. The United States withdrew its ambassador to Syria, and 100,000 mourners turned out for Hariri's funeral.
| Source:
CNN
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