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	Progressive Socialist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite Jumblatt's initial reluctance to engage in paramilitarism, it built a powerful private army, which proved to be one of the strongest in the Lebanese Civil War of 1975 to 1990.
		It conquered much of Mount Lebanon and the Chouf District.
		From the Israeli withdrawal from the Chouf in 1983 to the end of the civil war, the PSP ran a highly effective civil administration, the Civil Administration of the Mountain, in the area under its control.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressive_Socialist_Party (453 words)

	Lebanon (country) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lebanon (country)
		The city was crippled by the civil wars of the 1970s and 1980s, and the business district was destroyed.
		Beirut's thriving business district was largely destroyed in 1975–76, and Lebanon's role as an international trader has been greatly diminished.
		After the establishment of Israel in 1948, thousands of Palestinian refugees fled to Lebanon, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), founded in Beirut in 1964, had its headquarters in Lebanon 1971–82 (it moved to Tunis in 1982).
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Lebanon+(country) (1914 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Towards national reconciliation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A visit by the Maronite patriarch to the Druze-controlled Chouf is being hailed as the beginning of genuine national reconciliation.
		Celebrating the return of Christian refugees to their homes and villages in the Chouf -- a region that witnessed one of the bloodiest chapters of the civil war -- the patriarch repeatedly emphasised the importance of "coexistence" as a means to guarantee Lebanon's survival.
		Sfeir ended his trip with a winding trek along the back roads of the Chouf, visiting Maronite towns in Aley before returning to his summer residence in Diman, in the country's north.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/546/re2.htm (900 words)

	CLAO News
		The statement said the suspected murderer had sought to join Hizbullah as a card-carrying member for three decades but had been blocked by the victim, who contended Murad did not qualify for membership of the party that is fllisted by the United States as a terrorist organization with global reach.
		The murder occurred in suburban Bir Hassan close to the Sabra district.
		Hizbullah media chief Sheik Hassan Ezzedine said Noureddin was officially proclaimed a party martyr and buried in his hometown in the southern Lebanese township of Markaba on Friday.
	www.clao.com /dnews46.html (1827 words)

	members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		His father: Kamal Fouad Joumblatt (member of Lebanese parliament, minister in several cabinets, founder and president of the Progressive Socialist Party PSP, secretary general of Arab Front Participating in the Palestinian Revolution, president of the National Lebanese Movement and its political council, martyred on march 16, 1977).
		August 18, 1996 : Elected as a deputy of Chouf district – Mount Lebanon, he headed the National Struggle Front.
		August 27, 2000 : Elected as a deputy of Chouf district – Mount Lebanon, where he headed the National Struggle Front and the Democratic Forum Block.
	www.psp.org.lb /members.htm (812 words)

	USCRI
		Many Christians who were displaced from the Chouf district in the southern part of the Mount Lebanon governorate during the civil war have not been able to return.
		In the 1992 elections, many Christians from the Chouf Mountains did not vote because they were afraid to go to polling stations in the villages from which they had fled, although many other Christians boycotted those elections as well.
		To resolve the situation, separate polling stations were established in east Beirut to enable Christians displaced from the Chouf Mountains to cast votes without requiring them to return to their original villages.
	www.refugees.org /countryreports.aspx?id=859 (2492 words)

	KhAtTaM nEwS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		(0400 GMT) in three districts in the Lebanese capital, which votes first in the staggered elections, and eligible voters -- Beiruti men and women over the age of 21 -- began arriving at polling stations across the city under a bright warm sunshine.
		Druse leader Walid Jumblatt and his ally, Marwan Hamadeh, have won uncontested seats in the elections, bringing to 17 out of 128 the number of seats already decided on the eve of the polls, the government has said.
		Jumblatt, who was the most vocal anti-Syrian voice in Lebanon following Hariri's assassination on Feb. 14, and Hamadeh, a Druse former economy minister who survived an Oct. 1 assassination attempt, guaranteed their seats in the Chouf district of Mount Lebanon because there were no challengers.
	www.khattam.com /enews/enews.php?id=2682 (555 words)

	Ya Libnan \| Electoral Lists of Lebanon's hot battle announced \| Live News from Lebanon
		This is district number 3 of Aley and Baabda counties of Mount Lebanon.
		This district is allocated 11 seats in the 2005 Parliament of 128 members as follows: 5 Maronites, 3 Druze, 2 Shiites and on Greek Orthodox.
		While Jumblatt and Marwan Hamade won the elections in the Chouf district as unopposed candidates, this district is going to be the most hotly contested.
	yalibnan.com /site/archives/2005/05/electoral_lists.php (497 words)

	USCFL - Parliamentary Elections in Lebanon: An Early Assessment
		Here, Lebanese are in the midst of a five-week election five electoral districts each voting on subsequent Sundays that could have an important impact on future politics in this small but much fought-over country.
		(Thanks to the boycott, one candidate was elected to parliament having received a meager forty votes in her district.) The resulting legislature labored under a cloud of doubts as to its legitimacy, and MPs constantly felt insecure with respect to the constituencies they were allegedly representing.
		In addition to the numerous bilateral agreements approved by the 1992 parliament that ordered closer unity and virtual integration between Lebanon and Syria in fields of security, economics and politics, the legislature also endorsed a dubious naturalization decree in 1994 that increased the country's population by 10 percent, most of whom were naturalized Syrian Muslims.
	www.freelebanon.org /articles/zva1.htm (1224 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Aoun, who recently returned to Beirut after 14 years in exile, led his Free Patriotic Movement and its allies to victory in 21 of the 58 seats contested on Sunday, emerging as the main Christian political force in the country.
		Druze leader and opposition heavyweight Walid Jumblatt led the Progressive Socialist Party to victory in the largely Druze Chouf district, securing all eight seats contested.
		While Jumblatt conceded the opposition's defeat to Aoun's candidates, he harshly criticized the former general for dividing the opposition and causing a fracture between the country's Christian community.
	www.jdunman.com /u/Msg/2005/06/14/osint%20Christian%20general%20wins%20in%20Lebanon%20poll.txt (509 words)

	June 12-05
		Lebanon's Interior Ministry's preliminary results showed the percentage of vote was of 54 percent in Mount Lebanon and 49 percent in the Bekaa.
		The ministry said voter turnout in the majority Christian Kesrouan-Jbeil district, in Mount Lebanon where Aoun was heading a list, reached more than 60 percent, a turnout previously unseen in the area.
		After the first two moribund rounds of elections, the results of which were a foregone conclusion, the participation and closeness of yesterday's battle will be welcomed by many Lebanese, who have criticised the legal framework for these elections as undemocratic.
	www.maronite-heritage.com /html/june_12-05.html (635 words)

	Anti-Syrian Parties Win Uncontested Lebanon Races
		BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Druse leader Walid Jumblatt and his ally, Marwan Hamadeh, have won uncontested seats in Lebanon's parliamentary elections, bringing to 17 out of 128 the number of seats already decided on the eve of the polls, the government said Saturday.
		Jumblatt, who was the most vocal anti-Syrian voice in Lebanon following the February assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri, and Hamadeh, a Druse former economy minister who survived an Oct. 1 assassination attempt, guaranteed their seats in the Chouf district of Mount Lebanon because there were no challengers.
		The four-stage elections, which begin Sunday, will be the first since Syria withdrew its troops from Lebanon last month, ending a 29-year military presence.
	www.aina.org /news/20050528115753.htm (212 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| WORLD > Lebanese cast votes in first polls without Syrian meddling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		(0400 GMT) in three districts in the Lebanese capital, which votes first in the staggered elections, and eligible voters—Beiruti men and women over the age of 21—began arriving at polling stations across the city under a bright warm sunshine.
		Jumblatt, who was the most vocal anti-Syrian voice in Lebanon following Hariri’s assassination on Feb. 14, and Hamadeh, a Druze former economy minister who survived an October 1 assassination attempt, guaranteed their seats in the Chouf district of Mount Lebanon because there were no challengers.
		Hariri’s assassination plunged Lebanon into the worst political crisis since the end of civil war, forced the resignation of the pro-Syrian government and brought international pressure to bear on Damascus to withdraw its army from Lebanon.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/may/30/yehey/world/20050530wor2.html (611 words)

	Lebanon's Elections-A Syrian Style Democracy
		Here is a sample of the current law for the districts of Beirut.
		The Rmeil district which is a predominately Christian one is cut out of its geographic and demographic surrounding
		In addition to the need to redraw the electoral districts, it is also important to redistribute the parliamentary seats in
	www.alcc-research.com /activities/ElectionLaw.html (693 words)

	albawaba.com middle east news information::Lebanon election: Landslide victory for Hariri son list (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		(0400 GMT) in three districts in the Lebanese capital, which votes first in the elections, and eligible voters -- Beiruti men and women over the age of 21 -- began arriving at polling stations across the city.
		Druse leader Walid Jumblatt and his ally, Marwan Hamadeh, have won uncontested seats in the elections, bringing to 17 out of 128 the number of seats already decided on the eve of the polls, the authorities have said.
		Jumblatt and Hamadeh, a Druse former economy minister guaranteed their seats in the Chouf district of Mount Lebanon because there were no challengers.
	www.albawaba.com /en/countries/Lebanon/184160 (295 words)

	Dreadful Age
		Whilst no diplomatic representation exists between the two countries, election booths are opened for Syrian nationals in all Lebanese districts and in all the residential and religious areas (especially the Christian areas).
		The Jezzine District, for example, which was historically connected to Saida and now attached to Nabatieh is under the tutelage and control of Amal and Hizbollah; the newly formed Beirut circumscription would lead to the marginalization of the Christian votes whilst in the past they had a sizable and determining influence.
		Moreover, it is quite obvious that joining Besharreh to Akkar and AlDinnieh is designed to sabotage the true representation of its constituents as was demonstrated in the results of the 1998 Municipal Elections where the regime’s allies suffered a crushing and total defeat.
	www.lebanese-forces.org /hr/Reports/Dreadful%20Age.htm (5110 words)

	[No title]
		The country is divided into 13 electoral districts, and in each district there are lists of candidates from the various religious communities from among whom voters may choose, although a fixed number of candidates from each list must be elected.
		The column headed % 2 shows the votes polled by each candidate as a percentage of the votes cast within the district as a whole.
		Where a community elects more than one Deputy within a district, the votes have been divided by the number of Deputies elected to give an approximate number of voters, and the votes cast for each candidate have been divided by this figure to obtain an approximate percentage of voters supporting each candidate.
	psephos.adam-carr.net /countries/l/lebanon/lebanonintro.txt (442 words)

	Aoun Sweeps to Victory in Mount Lebanon, Zahle \|\| News \|\| CGGL.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The third round of voting, held in the Mount Lebanon and Bekaa districts, comes amid new accusations that Syrian intelligence has re- infiltrated Lebanon's Bekaa Valley despite last April's highly publicized Syrian pullout.
		The ministry said voter turnout in the majority Christian Kesrouan- Jbeil district, in Mount Lebanon where Aoun was heading a list, reached more than 60 percent, a turnout previously unseen in the area.
		But only 56 seats were up for grabs since Walid Jumblatt and his ally, Marwan Hamade, had already won uncontested in the Chouf district.
	www.cggl.org /scripts/new.asp?id=365 (643 words)

	The Daily Star - Politics - Berri backs governorate as electoral district (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Franjieh repeated his promise that the next electoral law would be "fair and representative" and asserted it would not take into consideration the particular interests of top leaders.
		This new grouping is expected to constitute a chance for politicians such as Hoss and others of his caliber - who identify neither with the government nor the opposition - to gather in a defined political movement.
		Hoss, speaking in an interview with Kuwaiti newspaper Ray al-Aam, criticized the opposition, including mainly the Qornet Shehwan Gathering and Chouf MP Walid Jumblatt's parliamentary bloc, describing its plan of action as "empty." Meanwhile, opposition figures vowed to maintain solidarity through the May elections.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=11888 (843 words)

	Rotary Leadership Courses Supervised by Rotary Education & Training Team for Lebanon District 2450 What's RETTL ? (Page ...
		The intent of PDG Carolyn Schuetz- District Trainer District 5170, California is to provide current and potential Rotary leaders with skills to enhance both their personal/professional lives and their Rotary lives.
		This seminar will be held during the official visit of the district Governor, headed by himself and conducted by the Trainer and the training Team.
		Monthly News Letter will be sent to All Rotary Clubs in Lebanon, also a semester communication will show the latest decisions of RI Board, and of TRF Trustees, and important and useful information for Clubs Officers.
	www.geocities.com /michelpajaz/RETTL.html (1950 words)

	Reports \| lebanese association for democratic elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The volunteers of the Lebanese Coalition for Elections Observation (LCEO) closely monitored the electoral process which took place on Sunday, June 12, 2005 in the electoral districts of the Bekaa and Mount Lebanon.
		As soon as the polling process ended, the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE) released a preliminary report on its monitoring and the observations of the Lebanese Coalition for Observing the Elections (CLOE).
		Following the elections in Mount Lebanon, and the accompanying dangerous breaches that took place mainly in the Metn, Baabda, Aley and Chouf districts, the volunteers of LADE pursued their activities in the North.
	www.ladeleb.org /english?q=taxonomy/term/32 (949 words)

	Liban Vote Homepage
		Ad-Diyar Newspaper indicated that the President of the Republic, Emile Lahhoud, received phone calls from Anan, the French President, Jack Chirk, and the American Minister of Foreign Affairs, Madeleine Albright.
		The President ensured of securing assured life to the 'wire inhabitants', and called for proceeding the steps for the support of the people in the liberated districts.
		Walid Joumblatt, Marwan Hamadeh, and Alaeddine Terro in Chouf District, Akram Chhayeb and Ayman Choucair in Aley-Baabda District, Doreid Yaghi in Baalbeck-Hermel District, and Ghazi Al Aridi in Beirut Third District.
	libanvote.com /project/archive/May/news24-05-2000.html (544 words)

	Report on Mount Lebanon Districts Elections (18/08/1996) \| lebanese association for democratic elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Report on Mount Lebanon Districts Elections (18/08/1996)
		Over the past few hours, LADE registered a number of breaches during its monitoring activities, most notably in the Metn and Baabda regions, in Aley (where one citizen died) and in the Chouf.
		The performance in Kesrouan was less drastic, as Jbeil (Byblos) stood out by an acceptable environment of political competition and few breaches.
	ladeleb.org /english?q=node/70 (1290 words)

	Lebanon Atlas - Miziara Village: Tourism in Lebanon, Lebanon Touristic Sites, Zgharta District, Miziara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		We learn that our ancestors left Bekfaya in 1652 and settled in Richta'mout where they constructed houses and a church, which still exists today.
		It was natural, through courage, determination and the high number of miziarians volunteers that a few reaches positions of command, which was the case of Sarkis Chidiac and Elias el Khoury.
		At the time of the 1861 events, the number of miziarian soldiers had reached the thirties, integrated in the army that the hero of Lebanon had organized to help the persecuted Christians of the Chouf.
	www.lebanonatlas.com /lebanonmajorcities/North/Miziara/index.htm (427 words)

	Middle East Online
		At the weekend, Aoun, who claims a key role in ending the 29-year Syrian troop presence, accused Hariri and other opposition politicians of "treason" for accepting the existing electoral law.
		Druze leader Walid Jumblatt Jumblatt announced an alliance Sunday with the now-dissolved Lebanese Forces militia of jailed Christian warlord Samir Geagea and chose a key LF militant to run on his electoral list in the Chouf district southeast of Beirut.
		Hariri, who has been managing his billionaire father's business empire since 1996, pledged to carry on the mantle of political and economic reform launched by his murdered father.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/lebanon?id=13510 (639 words)

	Lebanon - Lebanese4ever News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Aoun, feeling he was left out in the cold, promptly declared war on both Hariri and Jumblat, saying "all doors are slammed shut… and a confrontation is inevitable." He spared Qornet Shahwan and An Nahar said he would visit Geagea at his prison in the Yarze defense ministry compound soon.
		Media reports said Aoun planned to confront Jumblat in the Aley-Baabda district in a coalition with Talal Arslan, Dory Chamoun's National Liberal Party and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.
		Aoun, however, has effectively admitted that his Free Patriotic Movement stood no chance of putting up a meaningful challenge in Beirut, the Chouf or South Lebanon, where the traditional standard-bearers of Lebanon's Shiite community, Hizbullah and Speaker Berri, are overwhelmingly dominant.
	www.lebanese4ever.com /newsphp/fullnews.php?id=537 (521 words)

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