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	Change Comes to Syria's Lebanon 'Home'
		Anjar, Lebanon (BBC) -- The road leading to the Syrian border in Lebanon's Bekaa valley is usually full of dilapidated trucks wheezing pollution as they struggle towards Damascus.
		It is a history that the town's current inhabitants are intensely proud of, showing visitors the original plan of the town and the deed to its ownership on the slightest pretext.
		The people of Anjar have grown to accept and even to benefit from the Syrian presence in the town, but their dread of Syria's intelligence operation has never gone away.
	www.aina.org /news/2005042094136.htm (1175 words)

	Anjar - Armeniapedia.org
		Anjar is a town of Lebanon located in the Bekaa Valley.
		The village of Anjar, Lebanon, was established in 1939 when 6000 Armenian inhabitants of Musa Dagh, in the then-Syrian province of Alexandretta, carried out a mass exodus from their historic homeland, under the auspices of the French.
		Land in the Biqaa Valley purchased from a local Turkish bey by the French was to be appropriated for the settlement of the Musa Dagh Armenians.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Anjar (3712 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Lebanon: A Heritage to Restore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Anjar was laid out in quarters on typically Roman ninety-degree axes, and had broad avenues, covered arcades and a tunnel that functioned as a sewer.
		Camille Asmar, director of Lebanon's Department of Antiquities, is credited with the careful regulation and oversight that made the town a beautiful blend of ornamental and functional, of monument and modern city.
		Another museum housing part of Lebanon's cultural wealth, the Sursock Museum of Art in the Ashrafieh section of Beirut, has just completed its renovation and is again a proud white palace, with its ornate stained-glass windows shining in their elegant arched frames.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199402/lebanon-a.heritage.to.restore.htm (3593 words)

	Last Syrian troops leave Lebanon
		ANJAR, LEBANON - After 29 years, Syria pulled the last of its troops out of neighbouring Lebanon on Tuesday.
		About 40,000 Syrian soldiers stayed in Lebanon on a "peacekeeping mission" after the war ended 15 years ago, leading to accusations from opposition politicians that Syria was exercising too much control in the country.
		The team is monitoring compliance with UN Resolution 1559, which called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/lebanon_last_syrian_troops_leave.htm (305 words)

	Ya Libnan \| Spotlight on Anjar \| Live News from Lebanon
		This is primarily because Anjar was the control center for the Syrian command in Lebanon.
		Anjar was in effect the last town the Syrians left on their way out of Lebanon.
		Anjar is situated 58 kilometers (36 miles) east of Beirut in the Beqaa valley sandwiched between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains.
	yalibnan.com /site/archives/2005/05/spotlight_on_an.php (870 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : The Pigeons of Anjar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The ruins of Anjar, for example, where delicate arches soar in the air as splendidly as the birds they shelter.
		Anjar, in Lebanon's fertile Beka'a Valley, was once the summer palace of Omayad Caliph al-Walid (705-714), who was attracted there by the hunting and the icy springs at the nearby source of the Litani River.
		Anjar's watchman flies his birds by clapping, and calls them with a silver whistle, but in the otherwise deserted ruins his flocks do not often face temptation.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197006/the.pigeons.of.anjar.htm (438 words)

	Places in Lebanon - Anjar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lebanon's other sites were founded a millennia ago, but Anjar is a relative new-comer, going back to the early 8th Century AD.
		Anjar also stands unique as the only historic example of an inland commercial center.
		The city's slender columns and fragile arches stand in contrast to the massive bulk of the nearby Anti-Lebanon mountains - an eerie background for Anjar's extensive ruins and the memories of its short but energetic moment in history.
	almashriq.hiof.no /lebanon/900/910/919/anjar (232 words)

	Lebanon.com Newswire - Local News December 6 2002
		Lebanon broke off ties with Iraq in 1994 after an Iraqi dissident was killed in Beirut, but reestablished diplomatic relations with Baghdad last year as trade increased between the two countries.
		ANJAR, Lebanon, Dec 4 (AFP) - An explosion early Wednesday destroyed the tomb of a revered Sunni Muslim figure near the Armenian-populated town of Anjar in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, security sources said.
		Anjar is home to thousands of Armenians and is also the headquarters of Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon.
	www.lebanon.com /news/local/2002/12/6.htm (1253 words)

	Resources on Anjar academic institutions
		Anjar was 42 km to the Southwest of the epicenter.
		Anjar is one of the towns that was devastated by the recent earthquake; it was also severely damaged by an earthquake in the 1950s.
		EARTHQUAKE SOS (fwd): In addition to Bhuj, Anjar, Gandhidham and Bachao which are the large townships, there are hundreds of villages where the people are left on the roads with their...
	mongabay.org /conservation/Anjar.htm (859 words)

	Long Island Press: Long Island Newspaper, News, Entertainment, Real Estate, Classifieds, Automotive, Weddings, Business ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		ANJAR, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese forces excavated a suspected third mass grave on Sunday, a day after unearthing 25 decomposed corpses in an eastern town that was the headquarters of Syrian intelligence for three decades.
		Lebanese Internal Security Forces said in a statement residents of the eastern area on Anjar, which is near the border with Syria, had led them to the unmarked graves.
		The mayor of the nearby town of Majdal Anjar, who helped lead security forces to the graves, said he believed up to 40 bodies were buried in the area, near a hilltop Muslim shrine.
	www.longislandpress.com /reuters/1_ds_12942.php (604 words)

	Phoenicia Taxi Tours
		Anjar exclusively relates to one period: the Umayyad period.
		Birthplace of Mar Charbel, situated in the North of Lebanon, in the Bscharre region.
		Known as the capital of the North, it is the second-largest city in Lebanon.
	www.geocities.com /phoenicia_tt/pages/highlights.htm (2174 words)

	Anjar, Lebanon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anjar (Arabic: عنجر), also known as Haoush Mousa (Arabic: حوش موسى), is a town of Lebanon located in the Bekaa Valley.
		Its six neighborhoods are named after the six villages of Musa Dagh.
		On September 14, Christians from all over Lebanon converge on Anjar where prayers, parades and festivities are held to celebrate Holy Cross Day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anjar,_Lebanon (196 words)

	Lebanon-d
		The Armenian population flew from Moussa Dagh in 1939 to settle in Anjar.
		In the midst of Genocide and deportations, in autumn 1915, the Armenians of Cilicia rescued the treasures of the old seat of the Catholicosate in Sis, to Aleppo and finally in 1930 to Antelias, Lebanon.
		The rescued treasures of the Armenians of Cilicia are also a symbol of the cultural creativity of the Armenians, as well as concrete manifestation of the faith and commitment to live, coexist and cooperate in a peaceful and fruitful cultural dialogue with all nations and religions.
	www.cathcil.org /v14/doc/Lebanon-d.htm (677 words)

	Anjar, Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Anjar is 58 km east of Beirut, a completely different from any other archaeological experience you'll have in Lebanon.
		Anjar was built in the neighborhood of an ancient stronghold called Gerrha by Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid bin AbdulMalek in the early 8th century.
		There are indications that there may once been a Roman castle on the hill as there are traces of fluted columns, formerly engaged to the walls, with niches between intended to hold statues.
	www.atlastours.net /lebanon/anjar.html (181 words)

	Anjar, Lebanon - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		They were stopped in the west by the Franks under Charles Martel and by the Byzantine Empire, which repulsed an attack on Constantinople early in the 8th century.
		The range extends from the plain around the Syrian city of Hims in the north to Mount Hermon in the south.
		The Anti-Lebanon is separated from the Lebanon Mountains to the west by a fertile valley, the ancient Coele-Syria (now Bekáa Valley, or Bekaa Valley), which lies in both Lebanon and Syria.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /anjar.htm (620 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| From Our Own Correspondent \| Lebanon village struggles after Syrians
		Anjar had been - as one resident now reminds me - the epicentre of the Syrian occupation.
		Many of the labourers who were essential to Anjar's agriculture have left, but one, who has now returned, tells me everything is fine, there is no problem.
		The irony of the Syrian presence in Lebanon - that its army controlled the country, but its people worked like serfs for Lebanese masters - is etched into his weather-beaten face.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4700552.stm (1073 words)

	CBS News \| Lebanon Stands Up to Former Syrian Masters
		Syria vacated the headquarters _ notorious for the torture of prisoners _ when it withdrew its soldiers from Lebanon in April, ending its 29-year domination of its small neighbor.
		In November, Syrian President Bashar Assad lashed out at the wave of anti-Syrian sentiment, describing Lebanon as a "factory" of conspiracies against Damascus and Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora as a "slave" to the West.
		Lebanon, meanwhile, complained of weapons' smuggling from Syria and accused Syrian-backed Palestinian militants of seeking to destabilize this country.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/12/06/ap/world/mainD8EAFMBO0.shtml (742 words)

	Syria intelligence quits Lebanon HQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		ANJAR, Lebanon (Reuters) - Syrian intelligence quit its Lebanese headquarters in the border town of Anjar on Monday, virtually completing a pullout of Syrian forces from Lebanon and ending Damascus's 29-year domination.
		Protests by Lebanon's anti-Syrian opposition toppled the pro-Syrian government in the wake of Hariri's death.
		Lebanon's President Emile Lahoud awarded the Order of the Cedar to Syria's defence minister and chief of staff for helping rebuild Lebanon's army and restore stability postwar.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1390806/posts (924 words)

	Ya Libnan \| Mass graves uncovered near former Syrian intelligence HQ \| Live News from Lebanon
		Anjar, Lebanon - Three mass graves were uncovered in Anjar, near the Syrian intelligence headquarters that was abandoned in April earlier this year, just three kilometres (two miles) from the Syrian border.
		The Syrian intelligence headquarters in Lebanon was based in the village of Anjar for 29 years before the withdrawal.
		The previous Syrian intelligence chief based in Anjar was Ghazi Kanaan, who allegedly committed suicide on October 12 2005.
	yalibnan.com /site/archives/2005/12/mass_graves_dis.php (586 words)

	World Heritage sites (106 - 120) - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The ruins of Anjar, a city founded by Caliph Walid I at the beginning of the 8th century, has a very methodical layout, reminiscent of the palace-cities of ancient times.
		Byblos is the site of the multi-layered ruins of one of the most ancient cities of Lebanon, inhabited since Neolithic times and closely tied to the legends and history of the Mediterranean region for many thousands of years.
		Nearby are the remains of the great forest of the Cedars of Lebanon, which were highly prized for the construction of great religious buildings in Antiquity.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /world_heritage_8.htm (1005 words)

	Lebanon: mass graves and opium in Bekaa Valley \| World War 4 Report
		Lebanon: mass graves and opium in Bekaa Valley
		Another mass grave for the idiot left to deny the existence of or try to explain away—this time in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, near the Syrian border.
		ANJAR, Lebanon, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Lebanese forces excavated a suspected third mass grave on Sunday, a day after unearthing 25 decomposed corpses in an eastern town that was the headquarters of Syrian intelligence for three decades.
	www.ww4report.com /node/1359 (822 words)

	Middle East Online
		As the last Syrian soldiers trickle out of Lebanon after 29 years of domination, residents of the Bekaa Valley are looking ahead to a new era of Lebanese self-reliance and control of law and order.
		Syrian troops were packing up and heading out of Lebanon on Monday, restoring an air of independence to the tiny country which has been in the military and political grip of Damascus for 29 years.
		The last soldiers are due to leave Lebanon after a farewell ceremony on Tuesday in Rayaq airbase in eastern Bekaa where Syria had recently regrouped its troops ahead of the complete pullout requested by the United Nations.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=13315 (659 words)

	صفحة جديدة 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Anjar, the village that hosted Syria’s intelligence base, has sunk back into obscurity.
		Few doubt the pullout was a blow for Damascus, but cracks in Lebanon’s ruling anti-Syrian bloc and concern over its economic record have since given new life to Syria’s local allies.
		Lebanon’s only armed group, it has teamed up with another group, Amal, for joint leadership of the largest community in the country.
	www.omanobserver.com /28/Analysis/Analysis5.htm (647 words)

	Aanjar
		Lebanon's other sites were founded millennia ago, but Aanjar is a relative new-comer, going back to the early 8th century A.D. Unlike Tyre and Byblos, which claim continuous habitation since the day they were founded, Aanjar flourished for only a few decades.
		Just after Lebanon gained independence in 1943, the country's General Directorate of Antiquities began to investigate a strip of land in the Beqaa valley sandwiched between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains some 58 kilometers east of Beirut.
		This was Aanjar, then a stretch of blend bareness with parched shrubbery and stagnant swamps that covered the vast area of these archaeological remains.
	www.middleeast.com /anjar.htm (1541 words)

	The Arab American News
		MAJDAL ANJAR, Lebanon (AFP) - More than 10,000 people attended the funeral here this week of a man government officials accused of being a suspected Al-Qaeda leader.
		Khatib, described by Lebanese authorities as the top operative in Lebanon of Osama bin Laden terror network, was among 10 people detained last week over alleged plans to blow up the Italian embassy in Beirut.
		Syria is the main power broker in Lebanon and has based thousands of troops here since the early stages of the 1975-90 civil war.
	www.arabamericannews.com /newsarticle.php?articleid=949 (518 words)

	Lebanon, the Cedars' Land - Tyros International Green Pages
		The Cedar tree, majestic and indestructible, is the emblem of Lebanon and adorns its flag.
		Other large and small towns and villages dot the rest of the coast from North to South in the shadow of Mount Lebanon, which seems to rise from the Mediterranean in a sharp sweep.
		The main peaks of this mountain mass are al-Qorna as-Sawdaa (3088 m) and al-Mounaitra (2911 m) in the north; Sannin (2628 m) and al-Knaissa (2032 m) above Beirut, which is situated almost halfway between the northern and southern borders.
	tyros.leb.net (241 words)

	Lebanese site linked to Syria suspected as 3rd mass grave \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		ANJAR, Lebanon – Lebanese forces excavated a suspected third mass grave yesterday, a day after unearthing 25 decomposed corpses in an eastern town that was the headquarters of Syrian intelligence for three decades.
		Security sources said the 25 bodies found so far – most now only skeletons – had lain in the shallow graves for more than 12 years but it was not clear who they were and how they died, though one wore military trousers.
		Mayor Shaaban al-Ajami, of the nearby town of Majdal Anjar, said he believed up to 40 bodies were buried in the area.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051205/news_1n5graves.html (275 words)

	anjar lebanon,anjar tour,anjar trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Unlike other historical sites in Lebanon, Anjar portrays exclusively the Umayyad period.
		Walid the First was believed to have built the city between 705 and 715 AD but it wasn't until 1943, that the Lebanese General Directorate of Antiquities visited the Bekaa Valley and discovered Anjar and its archeological remains.
		Anjar is nowadays more than ever a park - like setting stretching to 114.000 square meters of restored monuments.
	www.1stlebanon.net /contenu/avoir2_uk.html (263 words)

	Mass graves found near ex-Syrian HQ in Lebanon - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		ANJAR, Lebanon - The remains of more than 20 people who died several years ago were found in Lebanon Saturday, near what had been the headquarters and a prison of Syrian intelligence, police reported.
		Bones were found in three mass graves on a hillside opposite the facility in the ethnically Armenian village of Anjar, just three kilometers (two miles) from the Syrian border.
		An Anjar resident who requested anonymity told AFP that "prisoners who died in the Syrian mukhabarat (secret police) prison were buried on the hill."
	news.inq7.net /world/index.php?index=1&story_id=58817 (503 words)

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