Lebanon: the opposition announces "rising for independence"
BEIRUT - the Lebanese opposition, joined together at a plenary sitting, announced Friday evening a "rising for independence" and claimed a "government of transition" which ensures the Syrian withdrawal and supervises the legislative poll envisaged in spring.
"In response to the criminal and terrorist policy of the Lebanese and Syrian authorities, the Lebanese opposition declares a rising democratic and peaceful for independence", declared with the press one of its members, Samir Frangié.
The Lebanese opposition antisyrienne makes assume with the "Lebanese capacity and the Syrian capacity, in its capacity as mode of supervision" the responsibility for the attack to the explosive which cost Monday the life to the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.
(©AFP/February 18, 2005 18h30)
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Opposition Declares Intifada to Rescue Lebanon from Syria's Tutelage
The Lebanese opposition declared an "uprising for independence" Friday and called for the pro-Syrian regime to step down so that a new government can be formed to oversee a Syrian military pullout from Lebanon. "In response to the criminal and terrorist policy of the Lebanese and Syrian authorities, the Lebanese opposition declares the democratic and peaceful intifada (uprising) for independence," said leading opposition figure Samir Franjieh at a press conference held at Druze leader Walid Jumblat's house in Clemenceau.
Lebanon's anti-Syria opposition has accused the government and its political masters in Damascus of having a hand in the massive bomb blast that killed Hariri and 14 other people in Beirut on Monday and sent shockwaves through the nation.(AFP)