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Lahoud says would name Suleiman as provisional successor if camps fail to agree on permanent one. BEIRUT - Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said Thursday he would name army chief General Michel Suleiman as his provisional successor if the country's competing political camps fail to agree on a permanent one. He was speaking ahead of a planned parliamentary vote this autumn to elect a new president, with the country's pro- and anti-Syrian blocs in a deadlock that threatens to exacerbate ongoing political paralysis. A successful vote requires the 128-seat house to muster a quorum of 86 MPs but this will require...

Syrian guest to Knesset says secret negotiations needed Ibrahim Soliman, a Syrian representative in previous, informal talks between Israel and Syria, briefs Knesset committee with Israeli counterpart Amnon Meranda Published: 04.12.07, 14:47 / Israel News Israel and Syria should hold secret negotiations in order to reach a peace agreement, Ibrahim (Abe) Soliman told the Knesset's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday. Soliman, an American citizen of Syrian descent, came to Israel Tuesday, to hold informal talks, via a non-governmental movement for peace between the two nations. He briefed the Knesset committee along with former Israel Foreign Ministry director-general Dr Alon...

Apr. 12, 2007 0:54 | Updated Apr. 12, 2007 14:26 Suleiman presents possible peace deal By MARK WEISS, SHEERA CLAIRE FRENKEL, AND JPOST STAFF Syrian American Abe Suleiman, a US-based Syrian citizen considered an associate of Syrian President Bashar Assad's father, presented the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee with possible scenarios for a peace deal with Syria, Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On said Thursday. Gal-On said that according to Suleiman, Syria would cease its support for terror organizations and join the global fight against terror, as well as cutting ties to Hizbullah. Syria would, in turn, demand that Israel withdraw from...

Syrian parliamentarian: 'Abe Suleiman has zero credibility' Jonathan Beck, THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 14, 2007 Abe (Ibrahim) Suleiman does not represent Syria in any capacity, a Syrian member of parliament was quoted by Israel Radio as saying Saturday. In an interview with BBC quoted by Israel Radio, parliamentarian George Jabour called Suleiman's behaviour "strange and surprising," adding that "no one in Syria asked Suleiman to speak in the country's name." Jabour also said that Suleiman had "zero credibility" in Syrians' eyes. Suleiman, a Syrian-born American businessman who holds a dual citizenship, came to Israel this week in what was hailed...

The man who allegedly attacked a Fox 6 reporter, Assed “Sam” Suleiman, was arrested Friday night after a tense stand-off with police. Sulieman allegedly fled from a patrol officer who was called for a court-order violation in the 7400 block of Draper Avenue in La Jolla. That patrolman called for backup when Suleiman ran into a nearby unoccupied office building. His wife Rosa Barraza and her step-daughter also were at the scene. Barraza was taken into custody for questioning while her 5-year-old step daughter remained with Sam Sulieman in the building. The standoff which began around 5:30 p.m. lasted into...

NANCEE E. LEWIS / Union-Tribune TV reporter John Mattes still showed the signs of his on-camera beating. A widely viewed video of the attack has made him an accidental celebrity. San Diego TV reporter John Mattes was hard at work this week, calling sources and chasing stories, even while convalescing from the bloody on-camera beating that turned him into an accidental celebrity. His body still aches pretty much everywhere. He has scratches on his face, human bite marks on his hands and arms, several cracked ribs and whiplashlike symptoms in his back. His gouged left eye socket remains tender...

A San Diego T-V reporter required hospital treatment after being attacked by a man and wife he was investigating for a news show. Fox Six News San Diego says investigative journalist John Mattes suffered cracked ribs, bite wounds and cuts to his face during yesterday's incident which was captured on film and ended with two arrests. Mattes was working on a story about alleged real estate fraudster Sam Suleiman. Mattes and cameraman Dennis Waldrop were interviewing a man outside a house in San Diego's La Jolla neighborhood when, alerted to the crew's presence by an associate, Sulieman's wife Rosa Baraza...

An investigative reporter for a Fox station in San Diego California ended up in the hospital after being attacked on the job by the same people he was investigating. According to the Fox station, investigative journalist John Mattes is an attorney and reporter known for his tenacity in tracking down cases of deception and consumer fraud. It was one such story John was working on when he was viciously attacked by a man who had been making threats for weeks. Police say the attacker is Sam Suleiman and his wife Rosa. The dramatic footage shows the woman verbally attacking Mattes...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/8/06 - Sahlav, Suleiman, Kfar Giladi, Kiryat Shmona, al-Aramsha, Tarshiha, Haifa, Mrar, Aita al-Shaab, Hadath, Beirut, Lebanon, Debbin, Blat, Hallaniya, Bekaa Valley, Chiah Beirut, Tyre, Masnaa, Baghdad, Sadiquiyah, Kandaksai, Kabul Israeli Response to many years of Hamas and Hizb'allah terror using Iranian/Syrian technology in 'Kofi's War' in Civilization's War on Terror. BREAKING: Somewhere in Lebanon - 'Sahlav' military post in Lebanon BREAKING: Somewhere in Lebanon - Hizb'allah terrorist Hussein Ali Suleiman in the raid that ignited the current conflict BREAKING: Somewhere in Lebanon - Israeli commando raid targets Hizb'allah "safe house" BREAKING:...

AHMED HIKMAT SHAKIR IS A shadowy figure who provided logistical assistance to one, maybe two, of the 9/11 hijackers. Years before, he had received a phone call from the Jersey City, New Jersey, safehouse of the plotters who would soon, in February 1993, park a truck bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center. The safehouse was the apartment of Musab Yasin, brother of Abdul Rahman Yasin, who scorched his own leg while mixing the chemicals for the 1993 bomb.When Shakir was arrested shortly after the 9/11 attacks, his "pocket litter," in the parlance of the investigators, included contact...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A former Iraqi general believed to be Jordanian extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's "military adviser" was arrested west of Baghdad. Abed Dawood Suleiman and his son, former army captain Raed Abed Dawood, were picked up in a morning raid on their house in Khalidiya, west of Baghdad, a defense ministry source said Wednesday. Zarqawi, the Al-Qaeda frontman in Iraq, is believed to have masterminded much of the country's violence, including car and suicide bombings that killed almost 700 people in May alone. He has a 25-million-dollar price on his head. "Abed Dawood Suleiman is considered to be Abu...

“Ah, you are from America. Thank God for George Bush!” It’s the first thing Ghazi Suleiman – a devout Muslim and one of Sudan’s top human-rights lawyers – says as I sit down in his living room in Khartoum one night. Dressed in a white tunic-like robe, he explains why he’s such a fan of President Bush. First, he says, America’s ouster of Saddam Hussein has put pressure on leaders all over the Muslim world to loosen political and religious strictures. In Sudan – a nation with a predominantly Muslim North and predominantly Christian South - the government has continued...