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Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
Lebanese rally draws 500,000 to mark Hariri's death |
2006-02-15 |
![]() The coalition of Sunni Muslim, Christian and Druze political forces, which called the rally, is demanding to know the truth about Hariri's assassination, which it blames on Damascus, and the resignation of pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud. "We miss you," read large posters of Hariri. "They feared you, so they killed you," others said. "He lived Lebanon and died for its sake," a black banner read. "I came here to say that the terrorist Syrian regime that kills will never escape punishment," Amal Yassin, a mother of three, told Reuters as she waved a red-and-white Lebanese flag. Leaders of the coalition, including Hariri's son Saad al-Hariri, were expected to address the crowd, estimated by security sources at half-a-million of Lebanon's 4 million population. Shi'ite Muslims, led by Syrian and Iranian ally Hezbollah, largely stayed away from the rally. Thousands of Lebanese soldiers and police were deployed in Beirut and its suburbs as people converged from across Lebanon on Martyrs' Square in downtown Beirut, where Hariri is buried. |
Posted by:Fred |
#1 Article was on the last page of my local and very provincial newspaper (Arizona Daily Star). VDH is correct, if a PAL occuses an Israeli of bad manners its page one...eveything else is blah, blah, blah... |
Posted by: borgboy 2006-02-15 10:39 |