Posted on 03/15/2005 5:46:40 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
BEIRUT: Up to one million anti Syrian protesters chanting "truth, freedom, national unity" marched into Downtown Beirut in Lebanon's biggest rally since the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri a month ago. Flag waving demonstrators from across Lebanon filled Beirut's Martyrs' Square, next to Hariri's grave, to hear opposition leaders demand the sacking of Lebanon's top security chiefs, a total Syrian pullout, and an independent investigation into Hariri's murder.
Unlike many of the recent anti-Syrian protests, Sunni Muslims from Hariri's hometown, Saida in the South, Tripoli and Akkar in the North, and Bekaa from East Lebanon, joined the demonstration.
Scores of Sunni clerics also attended, distinctive in their white-and-red turbans.
The show of opposition strength also included a small contingent of Shiites from Beirut's Southern suburbs. They joined Druze and Christians in taking to the streets heeding the call of Al-Mustaqbal Movement of Hariri's Sunni supporters.
The latest massive demonstration of people power, which organizers said a million people had joined, comes less than a week after a Lebanese resistance group rallied half a million of its supporters to thank Syria for its role in Lebanon. It is clear that event had galvanised many people to attend yesterday's demonstration.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.com.lb ...
Monday, March 14, 2005 Paying tribute to slain former Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri, who was killed in an explosion that claimed 18 other lives on February 14, thousands of Lebanese gathered Sunday night using candles to form the word “Truth” in English and Arabic in Martyrs’ Square in Downtown Beirut, next to Hariri’s grave. One month after the assassination the people responsible remain at large.
This story can't be posted enough.
More pictures, please!
In a recent unanimous SuFReme Court ruling, the court found held that there is an emanation from a penumbra of the Free Republic Ann Coulter rule, requiring that any news of protests in Lebanon must be accompanied by pictures of the Lebanese Protest Babes.
BUMP for freedom
Babe and Freedom Lovers
Could we have the pix of the Lebanese carrying their flags? They made such a good point.
A Lebanese opposition protester carries a poster show the Lebanese chiefs of security and asks Syrian troops to take them with them when they withdraw during a demonstration in Beiru's Martyrs square, Lebanon, Monday March 14, 2005. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese answered an opposition call for a massive protest to demand a full Syrian troop withdrawal, resignations of security chiefs and an international investigation into the death of former Premier Rafik Hariri. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
THANX !!
The phony pro-Syrian demonstration had 50,000, not the half million that turned out yesterday. WSJ reported many were bussed in from Damascus.
I think that our founding fathers must be proud in what is going in the world..
Of course many were bussed in. That's what Iranian regime always does. And they're the "puppet masters" of hezbollah.
I can't wait to see this repeated in Iran and N. Korea.
GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom 3/14/05-Beirut,Isfahan,Arak Yahoo, AP, Reuters, and the usual suspects | 3/14/05 | The Armies of Good against the Axis of Evil
Posted on 03/14/2005 1:48:22 PM EST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 3/14/05 - Beirut, Isfahan, Arak
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1362578/posts
Face of Freedom
Face of Oppression
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