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	Electronic Lebanon: US aid dependency: The road to ruin
		Protecting Lebanon according to the Bush administration is achieved by undermining its ability to fight Israel, the biggest source of threat to Lebanon's security, and the entity which attempted to invade it in the same year those aid packages were pledged.
		American economic aid to Lebanon was and remains part of neoliberal American policies across the globe that aim to construct an unregulated market-based economy by weakening the economic role of the very governments it purports to support.
		US military and economic aid to their allies in these countries is mostly symbolic, tactical or directed towards internal security and against the interest of the peoples or these countries.
	electronicintifada.net /v2/article9024.shtml (1750 words)

	Israel Votes to Expand Lebanon Offensive
		Udi Adam, but military commentators said the commander was seen as too slow and cautious to score a decisive victory against the guerrillas.
		Israel is particularly skeptical of a Lebanese proposal to dispatch 15,000 soldiers to south Lebanon after a cease-fire and the withdrawal of Israeli forces.
		Lebanon's proposal to deploy troops on the border appeared to have taken Israel by surprise.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,109340,00.html (1284 words)

	Lebanese Armed Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lebanese Armed Forces' primary missions include; defending Lebanon and its citizens against all aggression, confronting threats against the country's vital interests, maintaining internal stability and security, engaging in social development activities and undertaking relief operations in coordination with public and humanitarian institutions.
		The government of Lebanon has contracted the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Jordan, and Egypt to assess Lebanon's military and security infrastructure to develop reform programs in the near future.
		During mid-July and mid-August of 2006 Lebanon was under heavy air, sea, and land attacks by Israeli forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Lebanon (870 words)

	Lebanon - Military Academy
		The Military Academy is one of the oldest military institutions in Lebanon.
		Provisos of admission to the military academy require an individual to be 18 to 25 years of age, hold a brevet certificate, pass the admissions test and to be a Lebanese or Syrian national or have a Lebanese or Syrian father.
		To achieve its mission of proper habilitation and training the military academy concentrates on developing military and technical culture for recent officers, improving body strength to undergo army hardships, enlarging students skills and knowledge in the general culture and scientific research, and developing moral and habilitation development, behavior, trustworthiness, honesty, and discipline.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/lebanon/mil-academy.htm (311 words)

	USCFL - Lebanon: Vacuum of the Vanquished
		There is no doubt that Lebanon is hemmed in on all sides, to the south and to the north it faces oppression and occupation.
		What is equally perplexing and disturbing is that in Lebanon the suffering of civilians is not only disregarded but now has reached the level where it is not proportionate to the scale or intensity of the military operations that were a hallmark feature of the Lebanese Civil War.
		What this means is that Lebanon cannot survive while internal stability and the avoidance of military conflict are denied to her.
	www.freelebanon.org /articles/a255.htm (1506 words)

	U.S. Military Team In Lebanon To Evaluate, Plan Evacuations
		WASHINGTON, July 16, 2006 – A U.S. military team is now in Lebanon evaluating the possibility of evacuating thousands of American citizens there, a Defense Department spokesman said here today.
		It reads: "A message to American citizens in Lebanon: The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Defense continue working on a plan to help American citizens who wish to depart Lebanon to leave in a secure and orderly manner.
		Military Connection's Comments: The situation in Lebanon is of concern.
	www.militaryconnection.com /news/july-2006/lebanon-evacuations.html (522 words)

	Where is Lebanon's army? - Military Photos
		While Lebanon had a tradition of a certain prosperity (in the seventies, Beirut was called the "Paris of the Middle East" because of its posh lifestyle) the country sunk into the chaos of an civil war in the eighties (with Israel being not entirely innocent for this).
		40% of Lebanons citizens are Shiits, and the same goes for the soldiers.
		lebanon is strongly in support of the hezzies which seems to be the case.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=88162 (1078 words)

	My Way News - Israel Massing Military on Lebanon Border
		Israel, which pulled its troops out of Lebanon just six years ago after a lengthy and costly occupation that caused painful divisions within the Jewish state, was poised to carry out its third large-scale ground operation in Lebanon since 1978.
		An official from the U.N. monitoring force in south Lebanon said 300 to 500 Israeli troops were believed to be in the western sector of the border, backed by as many as 30 tanks - a likely precursor to a larger ground force that Israel could use to sweep Hezbollah out of the area.
		Israel's goal is not to create a buffer zone as it did during its occupation of southern Lebanon from 1982 to 2000, said a senior military official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the topic's military sensitivity.
	apnews.myway.com /article/20060721/D8J0LE1G0.html (1419 words)

	Syria Withdrawing Military From Lebanon - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The military official, who declined to be named, said the redeployment involved troops in the Beirut area who were being moved away from the capital to new positions within Lebanon.
		Speaking at a meeting with a Syrian military delegation headed by Syrian Defense Minister Gen. Hassan Turkmani, Lahoud praised "Syria's role in maintaining Lebanon's unity and territorial integrity and in the rebuilding of its institutions, including the army establishment," according to a statement from Lahoud's office.
		The military official said Syrian soldiers began evacuating hilltop positions in the coastal towns of Aramoun, Chuweifat, Damour, Doha and Khaldeh, south of Beirut, in the first stage of a major redeployment.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/lebanon/2004/0921withdraw.htm (842 words)

	Electronic Lebanon: electronicLebanon.net
		The speed and suddenness of the deal were a direct consequence of the change in the balance of power on the ground in the wake of the Hizballah military operation that exposed the weakness of the loyalist camp.
		Lebanon : Opinion/Editorial: In the wake of the Doha truce (19 May 2008)
		Sociologists often refer to the Palestinian camps in Lebanon as a "space of exclusion": the laws governing life in the camps are different from those governing life in the rest of Lebanon.
	electronicintifada.net /lebanon (775 words)

	U.S. Military Involvement in Lebanon Evacuations Coming to End
		The military has worked with the U.S. State Department and the governments of Turkey and Cyprus for the past 10 days to evacuate U.S. citizens from Lebanon, which has suffered extensive damage in 15 days of conflict between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah militants.
		A group of 100 U.S. citizens was taken from southern Lebanon to the port city of Tyre today by civilian vehicles, and they will be joining another 110 Americans on a Canadian ship leaving today, Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said.
		Yesterday, the U.S. military dropped off its first load of supplies to assist in the humanitarian effort being led by the United States Agency for International Development, Jensen said.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,107256,00.html?ESRC=marinenews.RSS (464 words)

	Israel's Withdrawal from South Lebanon: The Human Rights Dimensions (Human Rights Watch Press Briefing, New York, May ...
		Linked to the prospect of a unilateral Israeli withdrawal are two other key issues: the Syrian presence in Lebanon, and the ultimate fate of some 350,000 stateless Palestinian refugees, some of whom have lived as unwelcome residents in Lebanon for over fifty years.
		Lebanese military authorities have also made general statements about SLA members being "traitors," which strongly suggests that SLA defendants could not receive a fair trial in a military court.
		On April 26, Lebanon's military court sentenced one student to one month in prison and another to ten days, while a third was fined and released.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/lebanon/israel051000.htm (1990 words)

	U.S. Studies Lebanon's Military
		Military help to Lebanon advances two U.S. national security aims: the spread of democracy in the Middle East and the application of pressure on Syria, which has long been considered a state sponsor of terror.
		The recent military assessment in Lebanon began after elections were held last year and Lebanese officials sought guidance on the readiness of the country's armed forces.
		U.S. military advisers provided support and training in the first couple of years; hundreds of millions of dollars were spent until Lebanon's army was routed by militias as civil war spiraled in 1983 and 1984.
	www.aina.org /news/20060302115203.htm (1158 words)

	Israel Massing Military on Lebanon Border
		An official from the U.N. monitoring force in south Lebanon, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press, told The Associated Press in Beirut that between 300 and 500 troops are believed to be in the western sector of the border, backed by as many as 30 tanks.
		A senior Israeli military official said it intends to destroy Hezbollah's tunnels, hideouts, weapons caches and other assets during its expected land incursions into southern Lebanon, not create a buffer zone as it did during its 1982-2000 occupation.
		The U.N. mission, which has nearly 2,000 military personnel and more than 300 civilians, is to patrol the border line, known as the Blue Line, drawn by the U.N. after Israel withdrew troops from south Lebanon in 2000, ending an 18-year occupation.
	www.shareholder.com /fbfs/moreinfo.cfm?id=202w4412 (1546 words)

	Explosion in Lebanon kills military general and 3 others \| Ya Libnan \| Lebanon News Live from Beirut
		Aoun, a former head of the military, praised Hajj and said it was "shameful" for political forces to take advantage of the crime, a reference to the anti-Syrian groups.
		The military refrained from laying blame, saying in a statement that "the criminal hand" killed Hajj, along with "a number of soldiers, and wounded others." It said the military was investigating.
		Francois Hajj, head of military operations in the army command, mourns near his family house in the southern village of Rmeish, as she holds his picture after he was killed in a bomb explosion outside a municipal building in Baabda, an eastern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007.
	yalibnan.com /site/archives/2007/12/explosion_in_le.php (1195 words)

	Syria Pulls Military from Lebanon
		Lebanon’s new Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, is a compromise candidate between the pro-Syrian and anti-Syrian political camps.
		Habib said Syria had no “ambitions in Lebanon, except to protect it.” By withdrawing, Habib said, Syria will have “fulfilled all its obligations toward” U.N. Resolution 1559, which was passed by the Security Council last year and called on Damascus to pull out of Lebanon.
		Lebanese army commander Michel Suleiman lauded the role of Syria’s military in Lebanon, crediting it with rebuilding the army, maintaining peace among the country’s 17 sects and ending the 1975-1990 civil war.
	www.sacunion.com /pages/world/articles/4334 (786 words)

	German government presses for military deployment in Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the case of previous military engagements the German government gave the impression that it was rather reluctant to send troops, and would only do so on the basis of express requests.
		The military plans faltered when it became clear that German troops are not welcome in Lebanon.
		The Israeli attack on Lebanon was part of imperialist efforts to reorganise the entire Middle East—a process which had begun with the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and is aimed at securing US control of the entire region.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2006/sep2006/leba-s14.shtml (1532 words)

	Lebanon to receive weapons shipment from U.S. - CNN.com
		A statement attributed to Fatah al-Islam was sent Thursday to several media outlets in Lebanon, saying the militant group intends " to blow up several crusaders' universities and schools tomorrow in the event the Lebanese army does not surrender." Crusaders usually refers to Americans or Westerners.
		One senior U.S. military official said it is rare to send military flights on such a mission, considering the sensitive nature of the United States' role in the Middle East.
		Siniora stressed that the target of the Lebanese military is the militants who are holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp, and not the Palestinians.
	www.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/meast/05/24/lebanon.violence/index.html (1060 words)

	Israel’s Withdrawal from Lebanon - ADL Backgrounder
		The increase in Israel’s casualty count in Lebanon over the past few years led to growing domestic pressure for an end to Israel’s military presence in Lebanon.
		Israel also expects that the Government of Lebanon will take effective control of southern Lebanon and fulfill the remaining obligations of Resolution 425, particularly, the restoration of international peace and security to both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border.
		As Israeli troops were withdrawing from southern Lebanon, members of the SLA and their families fled their homes in fear of advancing Hezbollah forces.
	www.adl.org /backgrounders/lebanon_withdrawal.asp (753 words)

	Israel threatens military strike against Lebanon - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Israel claims that projectiles were fired by a Palestinian group operating in southern Lebanon under the patronage of Hezbollah resistance group.
		During the 18 years of Israeli occupation of a border zone in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah fighter fired Katyusha rockets into northern Israel responding to Israeli deadly attacks on civilians in southern Lebanon.
		Lebanon has filed similar protests with the United Nations over the frequent flights by Israeli warplanes violating Lebanese air space.
	www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=5735 (705 words)

	U.S. to continue military aid to Lebanon - CNN.com
		Discussions centered on continued U.S. military assistance to the Lebanese armed forces in light of the ongoing crisis.
		The violence is the worst to hit Lebanon since the end of its civil war in 1991.
		An Arab League delegation is scheduled to arrive in Lebanon this week in hope of negotiating an agreement between the Lebanese government and the Shiite Hezbollah movement.
	www.cnn.com /2008/WORLD/meast/05/14/lebanon.unitedstates/index.html (505 words)

	Lebanon maps from Omnimap.com, world leader in map supply.
		Lebanon maps from Omnimap.com, world leader in map supply.
		Lebanon has always been the heart where different religious groups from the Middle East gathered and contributed in enriching its cultural patrimony.
		Side one has a physical map of Lebanon at 1:200,000 showing relief, administrative boundaries, communications, oil pipelines, settlements and places of interest with index of place names.
	www.omnimap.com /catalog/int/lebanon.htm (736 words)

	kyw.com - Israel's Military Appoints New General
		Meanwhile, Israeli's military struck Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp early Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding three others, officials said.
		Lebanese and Palestinian officials said an Israeli gunship shelled the Ein el-Hilweh camp, but Israel's military called the attack an airstrike that targeted a house in the camp used by Hezbollah guerrillas.
		Ein el-Hilweh is the largest of Lebanon's 12 Palestinian refugee camps and has witnessed years of bombings, assassinations and shootings as rival factions in the camp vie for control.
	cbs3.com /topstories/topstories_story_220185419.html (560 words)

	Military studies Lebanon mission Fijilive - Fiji news breaking fiji news elections 2006 fiji government news fiji coup ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Military spokesman Major Neumi Leweni could not confirm whether a request was received saying he could only confirm that tomorrow's meeting was regarding the deployment.
		There are some reservations from the army camp that it does not have the finance and equipment necessary for such a deployment.
		Unlike previous UN peacekeeping missions where the UN footed the bill, contributing nations like Fiji are now also required put in a certain per cent of the total expense.
	www.fijilive.com /news/show/news/2006/08/28/fijilive9.html (180 words)

	Lebanon Article Listing - Food and Drink Insight
		Following the conflict between Hizbollah forces and the Israeli military in Lebanon, BMI has sharply revised downwards our previous forecast of a 19.6% growth in exports to 2.0% for...
		As the conflict in Lebanon rages on, those citizens left in the country are facing an increasingly dire situation, with the Lebanese authorities appealing to the international community...
		Lebanon's poultry market has been hit hard by fears of bird flu, as demand for chicken and eggs has slumped and prices have fallen by more than 50% since January despite the fact...
	www.foodanddrinkinsight.com /file/9650/lebanon.html (349 words)

	wcbstv.com - Syria Ends Military Presence In Lebanon
		Lebanon's new Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, is a compromise candidate between the pro-Syrian and anti-Syrian political camps.
		Habib said Syria had no "ambitions in Lebanon, except to protect it." By withdrawing, Habib said, Syria will have "fulfilled all its obligations toward" U.N. Resolution 1559, which was passed by the Security Council last year and called on Damascus to pull out of Lebanon.
		Lebanese army commander Michel Suleiman lauded the role of Syria's military in Lebanon, crediting it with rebuilding the army, maintaining peace among the country's 17 sects and ending the 1975-1990 civil war.
	wcbstv.com /topstories/Syria.Ends.Military.2.252023.html (783 words)

	FOXNews.com - Israeli Military Admits Lebanon Failings
		JERUSALEM — Israel's military chief has acknowledged for the first time that there were shortcomings in the military's performance during the recent fighting against Hezbollah militants, Israeli media reported Thursday.
		Criticism of the military's preparedness and tactics swelled as the monthlong fighting dragged on, then ended without a clear-cut victory for Israel.
		The most sweeping inquiry would be a state commission, with powers to dismiss government and military officials.
	www.foxnews.com /printer_friendly_wires/2006Aug24/0,4675,IsraelMilitaryChief,00.html (205 words)

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