ASSESSMENTS
Lebanon: Siniora's Decisions on Hezbollah
May 20, 2008 | 19:25 GMT
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Summary
Lebanon's warring political factions are meeting in Qatar to try and reach a power-sharing agreement. The talks follow a Hezbollah uprising triggered by the firing of the Beirut airport's security chief and threats from Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to target Hezbollah's communications network. Siniora's motives for threatening Hezbollah and thereby giving the Shiite militant group occasion to exert its political might are still murky, but the negative implications for Lebanon's Sunni community are already coming to light.
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