Lebanon: Syria’s opponents remain targets
BY Rana Fil, Special to Newsweek
More than two years after the Hariri assassination, Syria’s opponents in Lebanon continue to be targets for death.
Murder can have unforeseen consequences. Syria’s leaders ought to know that by now. A prime example is the car-bomb assassination of the billionaire Lebanese-independence champion Rafik Hariri. Almost faster […]

Syro-Iranian massacre of politicians in Lebanon
By Walid Phares
June 16, 2007
With the assassination of Lebanese MP Jebran Tueni in December 2006, months after the murder of political leaders George Hawi and Samir Qassir during the summer, the Syro-Iranian terror war room had opened a bloody hunt against the democratically elected Lebanese Parliament. After the withdrawal of […]

No peace for Lebanon without international forces along borders with Syrian
By Elias Bejjani
June 15, 2007
In my capacity as chairman for the Lebanese Canadian Coordinating Council, (LCCC expresses) and on behalf of its Board Directors and members we all express our profound condemnation of the terrorist, criminal and cowardly bombing that took the life of Lebanon’s […]

Saudi columnist in scathing criticism of Hezbollah and Syria
Says they are trying to destroy Lebanon down to the last man
MEMRI - 13 June 2007
In her column in the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh, Hasnaa Al-Qani’ir harshly criticized the Lebanese opposition, headed by Hizbullah, for conspiring with foreign elements against Lebanon with the aim of destroying it. She […]

Syrian and Iranian Generals in Intensive War Consultations
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
June 9, 2007, 12:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syria and Iran march together
DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Middle East sources take a look at the actions behind the words issuing from Damascus officials affirming Syria’s willingness to go into peace talks with Israel.
During most of last week, two high-ranking Iranian delegations […]

Recent killings of top Lebanese figures
Lawmaker Walid Eido, killed Wednesday, is the seventh prominent anti-Syrian figure in Lebanon to be killed in a little more than two years. Here is a glance at recent attacks in Lebanon, most of them against opponents of Damascus:
• Feb. 14, 2005: Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, tilting toward […]

Moscow Releases Nuclear Fuel for Iran’s Bushehr Reactor
From DEBKAfile
June 12, 2007, 1:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran’s Bushehr atomic reactor can start rolling with Russian fuel
Russian president Vladimir Putin put teeth in his threats and his cynically helpful alternative suggestions regarding the deployment of US missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly 304 disclosed on June […]

The Syrian-Jihadi “highway” in Lebanon
by Walid Phares
World Defense Review columnist
A curious “debate” is growing rapidly among a number of Western-based analysts about the “impossibility” of the existence of Syrian Jihadi-Salafist links. More particularly, some analysts went to the extent of describing the existence of links between the Syrian Mukhabarat and the group Fatah al Islam […]

Fatah Al-Islam Explained (By Ayman El-Masry)
Wednesday , 23 May 2007
BEIRUT — The previously little known Fatah Al-Islam, a militant group battling the Lebanese army, is different from all other groups based in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
“Unlike Palestinian groups it comprises a throng of wanted Syrian, Lebanese and people from the Gulf,” a well-kept Palestinian […]

Jihadists moving into Lebanon from Syria
By Christopher Allbritton, Washington Times
NAHR EL-BARED, Lebanon — Heavily armed foreign jihadists have been entering Lebanon from Syria from around the time Western authorities noticed a drop in the infiltration of foreign fighters from Syria to Iraq, Lebanese officials say.
Syrian authorities, hoping to disrupt Lebanon so they can reassert control […]