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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.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's capitulation to Hezbollah's demands has left the militant group with more political power than it held before....

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