Top: Lebanese soldiers deploy to disperse residents at a street in Tyre, southern Lebanon, April 21, 2011. Two civilians were killed during clashes between residents and security forces over the illegal constructions on public lands in Tyre, southern Lebanon, the National News Agency (NNA) reported (source). Second: A police car is set on fire by residents in Tyre, southern Lebanon, April 21, 2011. ...(source). Third: Residents seize a police car in Tyre, southern Lebanon, April 21, 2011. ... (source). Fourth: A man stands at the entrance of a shop in the building of an illegal construction site in Beirut's southern suburb of Ouzai, Lebanon, Thursday, April 21, 2011. Security officials say a dispute over a building permit in southern Lebanon has descended into a gunbattle that killed two people. Illegal construction is common in Lebanon, where many poor who cannot afford to buy land or apartments end up building on state-owned property (source). Bottom: A set of replica rockets which have been set up by Hezbollah in front of a picture of disappeared imam Moussa al-Sadr and a site where laborers are working at an illegal construction site in Abu Aswad near the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Thursday, April 21, 2011. ... (source).
Showing posts with label AMAL. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Images from Illegal Construction Confrontations
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
March 8 Parties Petition for the Dissolution of the STL
NOWLebanon reports that a delegation representing March 8 parties, traditionally allied to Syria and, in the case of Hizballah, Iran,
...visited UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams’ office on Saturday and delivered a memorandum asking UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to abolish the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL)......The memorandum calls for the UN to replace the STL with a joint Arab-Lebanese commission to investigate the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri...
... the March 8 parties also submitted the same memorandum to the Chinese and Russian embassies in Lebanon.
Absent from the memorandum was the signature of AMAL, the pro-Syrian half of the duopoly currently claiming [political] representation of the Shiite community in Lebanon.
AMAL has staked out increasingly divergent positions from those of Hizballah over the past several weeks and months. This comes as Syria engages in a power struggle with Hizballah over influence in Lebanon. That struggle translated into violence several ago in a fire fight started in the Burj Abi Haidar neighborhood of Beirut.
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AMAL has staked out increasingly divergent positions from those of Hizballah over the past several weeks and months. This comes as Syria engages in a power struggle with Hizballah over influence in Lebanon. That struggle translated into violence several ago in a fire fight started in the Burj Abi Haidar neighborhood of Beirut.
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