Dove's Eye View: Yahoo! News - Lebanon's PM Resigns

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February 28, 2005

Yahoo! News - Lebanon's PM Resigns

Breaking: Yahoo! News - Lebanon's PM Says His Government Resigns.

The Scotsman covers the Parliamentary session and the protests. Note that the MP quoted, Marwan Hamadah, shares the same name as the person recently wounded in a car bomb attack, previous to the Hariri assassination. I believe this must be the same person but I could be wrong.

Juan Cole is watching events via Futur TV, which he points out was owned by Rafiq Hariri.

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Aljazeera on the resignation and on the demonstrations.

AP News report by Bassem Mroue, via the Lebanese Lobby News. Check the Lebanese Lobby News site for eyewitness photos.

NY Times coverage via AP. (will add RSS link when it appears, until then, registration required).

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Congradulations on getting your country back. (at least I hope this means Lebanon will get their country back, there are still the nagging little issues of Syrian Army and Hezzbullah)
Long Live the CEDAR REVOLUTION!

Posted by: papertiger | February 28, 2005 at 10:33 AM

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