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Lebanon: Polling Station Notes

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut As election volunteers in Lebanon work this morning to spruce up its hundreds of Polling Places for Sundays’ election, Minister of Education Bahia Hariri, sister of the murdered Rafiq, canceled school […]

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UN War Investigators Arrive in Gaza

A United Nations team has arrived in the Gaza Strip to investigate possible war crimes and other violations of international law during Israel’s assault on the territory earlier this year. The 15-member team, headed by […]

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Nasrallah’s Turn

Nicholas Noe – Beirut Over the last decade and a half, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Lebanon’s militant Shiite movement Hezbollah, has steadily moved front and center in the often vitriolic (and regularly […]

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The Devil We Know

By Jim Miles The Devil We Know – Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower.  Robert Baer.  Crown Publishers (Random House), New York, 2008. Iran is obviously a key player in the Middle East. The many […]