The Fall of Lebanon – Update 1

The Fall of Lebanon – Update 1
Ongoing Story: Updated Thursday, January 25, 2007

In my first post titled, “The Fall of Lebanon Begins” I wrote this… I hardly saw any news on this fast destruction of a free Lebanon... even being mentioned in the MSM today. I guess it hasn’t got bloody enough for them... YET!

Well… I guess it has gotten bloody enough for them today... for it has been reported hard a heavy all morning on all the Cable News Channels.
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>>> The World Socialist Web Site has this report today…
The media focused attention on sectarian aspects of the conflict—with crowds of mainly Shia oppositionists facing off against supporters of Siniora’s government, which is composed of Sunni, Druze and Christian parties. Sharp tensions were apparent in the armed clashes, fistfights and stone-throwing that took place. But sole blame for this was routinely placed on Hezbollah, which was accused of acting as a proxy of Iran and Syria against a supposedly democratic government. Siniora told Japan’s Kyodo News that Lebanon has “been paying the price of imposed decisions coming from outside countries, like Iran and Syria... The decisions made by the opposition in Lebanon are decisions coming from outside, like Iran and Syria.”

“What is happening is a revolution and a coup attempt,” Christian leader and former warlord Samir Geagea told Al Jazeera. US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack made similar claims...
Read the story in full at link below...
Western powers accuse Iran and Syria of masterminding Lebanese general strike

>>> SKYnews.com is reporting... At least four people are reported to have died in clashes between political groups at Beirut Arab University... Pro and anti-government students hurled rocks and furniture at each other in running battles on the campus... The riot is the latest incident to ratchet up tension in Lebanon and will raise fears the country is once again slipping into civil war after a month of anti-government protests...
Read this story in full at link below...
Four Dead In University Clash

>>> FOXnews has this story and video at link below...
Lebanon Students Rampage

More to come...
AubreyJ.........