Beirut Finally Routs Bin Laden's Allies
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But the conditions that fostered them in Lebanon remain  -  and a concerned U.S. is shipping more military aid to the Siniora government
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BEIRUT -- The radical Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah and its allies escalated Lebanon's month-long political crisis into a popular confrontation yesterday, sending hundreds of thousands of its supporters into the streets of downtown Beirut.
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Lebanon's army crushed the last remnants of a militant group in a ferocious gunbattle Sunday that killed 39 of the fighters, ending a bloody three-month siege at a Palestinian refugee camp that was the country's worst internal violence in years.
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&quot;[Five] months had gone by since the last suicide bombing. Even Israelis, perhaps the most security-conscious people in the world, had begun to believe they had achieved improved protection from Palestinian terrorists.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - An uneasy calm settled over a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday after the Lebanese army claimed victory in 33 days of fighting against al Qaeda-inspired militants.
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Lebanese diva Fayrouz performed in Beirut again at last, and her country, it seemed, had never needed her more.
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Throngs of Lebanese came out for two opposing gatherings: Hizballah backers for the funeral of a slain militant suspected in hundreds of American deaths, and their pro-Western opponents to mark the assassination of an anti-Syrian former prime minister
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BEIRUT, Dec. 10 -- Hezbollah and its allies turned out the biggest crowds yet in downtown Beirut, sending hundreds of thousands of followers to the gates of the government headquarters Sunday in a feat of mobilization and discipline described by some leaders  as the last mass protest before the...
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President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Saturday showed determination to knock out the terrorists.
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Thousands of Lebanese have been pouring into Beirut for a Hezbollah-led protest aimed at toppling the Western-backed government, which has vowed it will not buckle under the pressure.
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Warplanes bombed Beirut&#039;s southern suburbs again early Sunday, witnesses reported, after a day in which Israel tightened a noose around this reeling nation with the heaviest air strikes yet in the four-day-old conflict.
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Central Beirut has acquired an eerie air of normality in the midst of the abnormal.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops shelled al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday, almost three weeks after fighting broke out.
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Throngs of Lebanese came out Thursday for two opposing gatherings: Hezbollah backers for the funeral of a slain militant suspected in hundreds of American deaths, and their pro-Western opponents to mark the assassination of an anti-Syrian former prime minister.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon-- Lebanese helicopters and tanks pounded suspected positions of Al Qaeda-inspired militants to dislodge them from their hide - outs at a Palestinian refugee camp yesterday, but the group vowed it would not surrender.
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A new emboldened Beirut government is forcing an end to a 10-day stand-off as negotiations fail.
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The funeral for Gen Francois al-Hajj, who was assassinated on Wednesday, have begun in the Lebanese capital Beirut.