31.1.06

'US Prods Lebanon Towards Civil War'

The first and only reported fine and concise analysis of the current situation in Lebanon by a westerner.

''America's major Lebanese allies: the mostly Sunni entourage of the murdered former Prime Minister Hariri allied with Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, leftists funded by the Hariri camp and the remnants of Lebanon's Christian far right are spearheading the anti Syrian camp.
George W. Bush's meeting last Friday with Hariri's son, Saad, who heads the parliamentary majority but is technically a mere member of Parliament, is unprecedented in the history of White House protocol and indicated the extent to which he and his father's empire are critical to America's embrace of Lebanon.''

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