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Posted on 04/15/2003 1:29:49 PM PDT by yonif
Lebanese Television is reporting that Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Al-Hariri, handed in his resignation Tuesday night to President Emile Lahoud.
Lahod reportedly accepted his Prime Minister's resignation and is expected to ask Hariri's replacement, as yet unknown, to establish a new government.
Lebanese TV did not provide a reason for Hariri's resignation.
Hariri submitted his Cabinet's resignation to President Emile Lahoud after a meeting at the presidential palace Tuesday night.
Lahoud asked Hariri to continue as caretaker until a new prime minister is appointed and a Cabinet formed.
Hariri is widely expected to be asked to form the next government.
Hariri, a dynamic 58-year-old billionaire businessman who made his fortune in Saudi Arabia, has served as prime minister since 1992 except for the years 1998-2000.
He is credited for launching a multibillion-dollar program to rebuild Lebanon's infrastructure from the ruins of the 1975-90 civil war. Critics, however, blame him for borrowing heavily on international markets.
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Agreed, why don't the Lebanese complain about "occupation"?
This is series!
I got this email from a friend
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Dear Friends,
It is of the utmost importance for us to get this story out to America and we need your help.
My colleagues and I are actively working to create a Free Lebanon for the people of a country that has suffered for too long under the heel of a Syrian occupation. Under this tyranny, Lebanon has been made a center for terrorism that threatens the Middle East as well as America and the rest of the civilized world. It is long past time to return that country to rightful owners, its people, and wipe away the stain of terrorism and evil from its soil.
Please see the two organizations (the US Committee for a Free Lebanon, Inc. www.freelebanon.org and the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin www.meib.org ) we founded in 1997 and 1999 to learn about what we are trying to do.
We speak for many of the two million Lebanese Americans who are anxious to bring this issue to the attention of the rest of our fellow citizens.
Please consider these organizations and me as a resource when addressing issues regarding Lebanon, Syria and Hezbollah; I will be glad to speak on the record or for background and would be honored to appear on any programs you are planning.
This is an important time for the people of Lebanon and their story has to be told.
Please be aware:
**Lebanon is still under Syrian occupation after 27 years of struggle against Syria's Ba'athist regime (similar to the one in Iraq).
**Once the jewel of the Mediterranean, Lebanon has become a hotbed of mullahs and terrorists.
**The "Free Lebanon" movement in this country is made of over 2 million Lebanese Americans and the Lebanese freedom loving Diaspora is made of over 15 million people worldwide; all ready, willing and eager to embrace any help from the United States to contain Syrian aggression. If there is any one country in the Middle East that could become a democracy quickly and aid others in their search for freedom, it is Lebanon.
**Lebanon, as a free country, was home to all peoples and religions. Christians, Muslims and Jews lived side by side until the country was rent apart by the turbulence around it.
**Now is the time to put an end to Syria's occupation of Lebanon and to restore Lebanon to its people.
FIRST IRAQ AND NOW LEBANON----- FREE THE LEBANESE PEOPLE
Help us to expose the Syrian occupation of Lebanon for what it is. Let us show the world the terrorism it spawns and bring freedom to the people of that tiny, embattled country.
Respectfully,
Ziad K. Abdelnour
President
U.S Committee for a Free Lebanon, Inc.
445 Park Avenue, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Tel: 212/452-0743
Cell: 917/678-3767
Fax: 212/202-6166
www.freelebanon.org
Thanks for this post, I wish we could just keep going right through Syria to the Med, but I know we won't, too bad. To me it almost seems that ARABS are their own worst enemies, at each turn they seem to radicalize themselves more. This is very self-destructive, it seems they are mostly delusional about the world they live in.
Exactly what I wondered.
Naw.....I only have one or two bright ideas per year. This was too obvious! 
HF
Your idea is SO good that Rummy put it in action a couple of weeks ago. They're inside Syrious now.
Michael
I said "through" Syria to the Med. Yea I think there may be other ways, but they have been sending little "jihadis" in to Iraq to kill Americans. That upsets me.
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