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	ACPR - Policy Paper 96 - The Syrian Occupation of Lebanon
		The Syrian occupation, calling it by its proper appellation, was consummated in 1989 with the Taif Accord and in 1990 with the removal of General (and Prime Minister) Michel Aoun from the Ba'abda presidential palace and with the full conquest of Beirut the capital.
		Syrian occupation employed a wide range of policy means to transform Lebanon into a "client state" and a Syrian political satellite.
		The collapse of a free Lebanon is part of the expanding sweep of Islamic power and the decay of Christian civilization in the Middle East.
	www.acpr.org.il /publications/policy-papers/pp096-xs.html (296 words)

	The Lebanon Study Group Report - Middle East Forum
		Lebanon is a significant and forceful presence in the Arab world and a beacon capable of leading its fellow Arab nations in the direction of religious tolerance, democracy and greater economic and social freedoms.
		Lebanon's historical status as a sanctuary for persecuted minorities is reflected in her eighteen officially recognized religious denominations-nearly all of which connect to significant populations outside Lebanon's borders.
		In a sense, Syria's occupation of Lebanon is no surprise, for Damascus never reconciled itself to the emergence of an independent Lebanese republic on its western doorstep in 1943, and Syrian politicians meddled in Lebanon's internal affairs decades before the outbreak of hostilities in the mid-1970s.
	www.meforum.org /research/lsg.php (12958 words)

	Lebanon, Lebanese, Maronites, Beirut - The Peace Encyclopedia
		Lebanon was divided between a pro-Arab, mostly Islamic camp, which supported the Palestinians, and a Lebanese nationalist, Christian inspired camp, opposed to the dilution of the country's historic identity.
		The death and destruction caused in large part by the PLO and Syrian occupation of Lebanon during the era of the Lebanese civil war resulted in an estimated 100,000 killed, 250,000 wounded, 800,000 Christians and 500,000 Moslems homeless, and 32,000 orphaned children from 1970 to 1981.
		Lebanon continues to labor under the burden of Syrian occupation of its national territory resulting in control of its political and economic life and continued conflict in southern Lebanon.
	peace.heebz.com /lebanon.html (6179 words)

	"Syrian Workers in Lebanon: The Other Occupation" (February 2001)
		Their nemeses are not the Syrian soldiers who man checkpoints throughout the country, nor the plainclothes intelligence officers who monitor every public political gathering, but the 1.4 million penniless Syrian workers who have flooded into Lebanon in recent years and swept away the promise of a brighter future by virtually monopolizing many unskilled professions.
		Syrian workers had been a significant part of Lebanon's expatriot workforce prior to the outbreak of the civil war in 1975, but their presence had been strictly subject to Lebanese laws.
		In December 1996, a van carrying three Syrian workers from North Lebanon to Beirut was attacked by an armed gunman in a passing vehicle, killing the driver and injuring one of the passengers.
	www.meib.org /articles/0102_l1.htm (2568 words)

	The Syrian Occupation of Lebanon - Middle East Forum
		Lebanon is the most direct land route to invade Israel (and vice versa).
		Also, Lebanon is host to a multitude of Syrian-backed terrorist organizations, which operate with greater impunity there than they do in Syria itself and use Lebanon as a launch pad for cross border attacks on Israel (Damascus would never dream of allowing terrorist groups to attack Israel directly from Syrian soil).
		Although Lebanon's sectarian divisions and fractured political culture have contributed to the lasting Syrian occupation, the most decisive factor is international permissiveness; the United States and other powers tacitly accept Syrian hegemony.
	www.meforum.org /article/546 (927 words)

	"US Mideast Policy and the Syrian Occupation of Lebanon" (March 2001)
		Although US recognition of Syrian interests in Lebanon began to take shape as early as the 1970s, explicit American coordination with the Assad regime became most evident during the first Bush administration, which was forced to confront a major Lebanese crisis early on.
		In the fall of 1988, Syrian military forces, which occupied large swathes of territory in eastern and northern Lebanon, and the Lebanese Forces (LF) militia, which controlled East Beirut and the Maronite Christian heartland north of the capital, instigated a political impasse by preventing members of the Lebanese parliament from electing a new president.
		The US government's tacit support for Syria's occupation of Lebanon is not endorsed outside the executive branch - both the Senate and the House of Representatives have passed resolutions calling for a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon.
	www.meib.org /articles/0103_l1.htm (3490 words)

	CNN.com - Lebanon's pro-Syrian PM resigns - Feb 28, 2005
		Fallout from the assassination of Lebanon's Rafik Hariri.
		BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- The Lebanese government abruptly resigned Monday during a stormy parliamentary debate, prompting a tremendous roar from tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in central Beirut.
		Syrian Cabinet Minister Bouthaina Shaaban denied Sunday that Syria was involved in Hariri's death, despite the U.S. State Department's contention that Syria is a state sponsor of terrorism and that Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Hezbollah operate with Syrian support.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/02/28/lebanon.protests/index.html (1241 words)

	Help Lebanon, Syrian Occupation of Lebanon
		The Syrian occupation troops pressured Lebanese politicians in the areas it occupied to oppose the Lebanese government; they had even assassinated the highest Sunni Muslim clerk, mufti of Lebanon because of his rejection of the Syrian fight against Lebanese.
		On October 13, 1990, the Syrian troops launched aerial and ground attacks and occupied the Lebanese presidential palace and the ministry of defense defeating the reminder of the Lebanese army.
		The Syrian-appointed government in occupied Lebanon exiled the Lebanese Primer to France and 'legitimized' the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.
	www.2la.org /english/eng-mainhelp_syria.htm (2139 words)

	Future of Lebanon - testimony by Daniel Pipes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Curiously, the Syrian occupation of Lebanon is, by its own lights, illegal, for the Syrian government has on three occasions concurred with decisions that require it to leave Lebanon.
		Perhaps the most dramatic conversation was just a week ago, when Secretary Albright met with the Syrian foreign minister in Cairo, and according to press reports, she did not raise the issue of Syria's occupation of Lebanon.
		The Syrian authorities, not surprisingly, responded to this weak advisory by saying they have every right to be there, they were invited in by the Lebanese government, and they don't need the blessing of the United States.
	www.danielpipes.org /article/962 (2593 words)

	Baltimore Independent Media Center: United Nations votes to End Syrian Occupation of Lebanon
		UN Security Council just issued Resolution 1559 that calls for the Syrian regime to pull its occupation troops from Lebanon and to quit its interfering in its internal affair.
		Lebanon was one of the very few democracies in the entire Middle East with a constitution that goes back to 1926.
		The puppet regime in Lebanon was not informed about the Syrian pullout until the Syrian Baath took the decision.
	baltimore.indymedia.org /newswire/display/7959/index.php (619 words)

	Help Lebanon,Lebanon Peaceful Resistance against Syrian Occupation
		Civilian agents backed by Syrian troops and their proxy regime in Lebanon attack Lebanese students who were demonstrating in what became known as the "Events of August 7 th".
		The Syrian regime and its proxy government in Lebanon were unhappy with the reconciliation that was seen as a potential threat to the influence of Syrian troops in Lebanon.
		The Syrian regime was pleased with his attitude and granted him a 3-year term extension in his position violating the Lebanese constitution and confronting the international community that issued the UN Res.
	www.lgic.org /en/help_resistance.php (1681 words)

	End the Syrian Occupation of Lebanon
		In truth, Lebanon, along with being a handy financial hub and luscious slice of seaside real estate, is also one of the prime factors that makes impoverished, wretched Syria a player of heft in the region, a colonial power cultivating trouble.
		Before the Syrians threw him in prison, he was hung by his wrists, beaten, burned with cigarettes, and told he would die in Syria.
		Lebanon has had democracy before, and therefore it is the place where democracy in the Middle East is most likely to take root and spread.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/896732/posts (1795 words)

	USCFL - Syrian Occupation Suffocates Lebanon and the World Shrugs
		Behind the new glitz and bustle born of a cosmopolitan and enterprising culture looms the ugly truth that Lebanon, with the quiet assent of the free world, has become the ward of one of the most brutal states on earth--terrorist-sponsoring Syria.
		Following Lebanon's independence from France, in 1943, the country enjoyed for a time a civic framework that gave its many factions--Muslims, Christians and subdivisions thereof--ways other than war, or deference to tyrannical rule, to settle their differences.
		In the dream world of Realpolitik, Syrian forces have simply stayed on in Lebanon with the mission of keeping the country conveniently "stable." In practice, as in so much of the Middle East, this kind of stability is breeding new demons.
	www.freelebanon.org /articles/a355.htm (1432 words)

	FREE LEBANON - THE "FORGOTTEN" SYRIAN OCCUPATION OF LEBANON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		They recognized the Syrian appointed regime in Lebanon and cannot blame Lebanon now if it fails to take charge of its destiny and respond to the latest Israeli withdrawal offer in accordance with UN resolution 425.
		We ask the world to boycott the officials of the occupation regime and to force Syria to implement UN Resolution 520 which requires its withdrawal from Lebanon.
		And when anyone objects to the Syrian occupation, Syria threatens the Lebanese and the world with the return of the civil war to Lebanon.
	www.generalaoun.org /freedomwriter7.html (533 words)

	austin indymedia: UN votes to End Syrian Occupation of Lebanon
		Syrian ethnic cleansing in occupied Lebanon The Syrian regime has been working on changing the ethnic and religious demography of Lebanon by replacing its people.
		Since 1990, Syrian occupation of Lebanon has forced more than 35% of the Lebanese to leave their country.
		The Syrian-appointed government in Lebanon naturalized around half a million Syrians and Palestinians that is equal to 20% of the Lebanon population This mass displacement project is accompanied with regular persecution, arresting, kidnapping, torturing and assassinating of the Lebanese.
	austin.indymedia.org /newswire/display/17527 (426 words)

	USCFL - Syrian Occupation, US Appeasement
		American acceptance of Syrian hegemony in Lebanon was not, as is often assumed, a case of US officials deferring to Arab or European sensibilities.
		That the international community has today come to accept Syrian hegemony in Lebanon is due in no small part to this early policy of appeasement by the world's lone superpower.
		Since international and Lebanese opposition to Syrian hegemony is kept in check by the perception that America condones the occupation, the Bush administration should make it clear that this is no longer the case.
	freelebanon.org /articles/a264.htm (758 words)

	Syria Terrorism against USA
		A U.S. Navy diver was shot during the 1985 terrorist hijacking of TWA flight 847 in Beirut, and terrorists kidnaped and held hostage several Americans in Lebanon during the course of the last two decades.
		Lebanon, under Syrian occupation, was turned from a democratic country to a totalitarian regime ruled by the Syrian army and intelligence.
		Even under the duress of the current Syrian occupation, the Lebanese people remain staunch friends of the US and must be helped to return to the Free World.
	www.2la.org /act/lebanon_syrian_terrorism.htm (431 words)

	Lebanese Youth Protest against the Syrian Occupation of Lebanon in Sydney : Melbourne Indymedia
		In what was a symbolic gesture, members and supporters of FLAYM carried Lebanese flags, pictures of Syrian atrocities in Lebanon, and banners demanding Freedom, Sovereignty and Independence, the release of all Lebanese prisoners in Syrian jails, and the end to the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.
		Upon arrival, the leader of the Syrian Diplomatic mission was confronted by Lebanese of all religions and political beliefs holding pictures, slogans and chanting the Lebanese anthem and patriotic songs.
		The Syrian forces have been committing all types of terrorism against the Lebanese people assassinating their leaders and massacring civilians for the past three decades.
	www.melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2004/03/65698.php (691 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| US Congress subcommittee blasts Syrian occupation of Lebanon
		The resolution describes Lebanon as a "captive country" and states that Syria's occupation "represents a long-term threat to the security of the Middle East, as well as US efforts "to promote political and economic liberalization in the region."
		The resolution also calls "for the immediate release of all Lebanese detainees in Syria and Lebanon," and for Bush to "freeze all assets in the United States belonging to Lebanese government officials who are found to support and aid" Syria's occupation of Lebanon.
		On Wednesday Bush publicly urged Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon and to let "democracy to have a chance to flourish," and welcomed cooperation with France on the issue.
	lebanonwire.com /0503/05030216AFP.asp (256 words)

	Syrian intelligence chief abandons base as 29-year occupation of Lebanon ends \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Hundreds of Syrian troops left the country over the weekend after burning documents, demolishing walls and filling bunkers.
		Yesterday, Syrian intelligence abandoned Anjar, the headquarters of Rustum Ghazaleh, the intelligence chief who was once the most feared man in Lebanon.
		Syria sent its troops into Lebanon in 1976 and has maintained political hegemony over the country since the civil war ended in 1990.
	www.guardian.co.uk /syria/story/0,13031,1470350,00.html (520 words)

	Israel Calls For End Of 'Syrian Occupation' Of Lebanon!
		Never mind the Zionist occupation/annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights, pay no attention to the de facto occupation of the West Bank, and Gaza lands...never mind zionists are currently occupying/annexing even more Palestinian land via Sharon's racist, apartheid wall...let's get those terrible Syrians out of Lebanon.
		He called on "the countries of the free world to start a diplomatic campaign" to force a withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon and said he had raised the issue with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
		The controversy over Syrian presence in Lebanon came to the fore following Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000 after a guerrilla campaign spearheaded by Hezbollah.
	www.rense.com /general48/occu.htm (336 words)

	My Optimism about Ending the Syrian Occupation of Lebanon [Weblog] - Daniel Pipes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Syrian occupation of Lebanon began in 1976 and I started writing about it a few years later.
		April 24, 2005 update: "Syria ended its three-decade presence in Lebanon," announces the Associated Press, "leaving behind only a few score troops who will attend a farewell ceremony Tuesday." My May 19, 2000 prediction, it appears, was off by a twenty-five days.
		Syrian intelligence is also deployed in Palestinian refugee camps and communities, some of which have suddenly grown larger, U.S. officials and Western diplomats said.
	www.danielpipes.org /blog/410 (643 words)

	Stop Syrian Occupation of Lebanon : Indybay
		of the Lebanon station of the Syrian Moukhabarat, the
		Lebanon lost its major features of democracy and human
		Tuesday Aug 31st, 2004 5:39 PM Wouldn't it be nice if Leftists did something about the ongoing occupation of Lebanon by the Syrian dictatorship?
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2004/08/31/16938641.php (545 words)

	OpinionJournal - The Real World
		Syrian occupation suffocates Lebanon, and the world shrugs.
		BEIRUT, Lebanon--Jewelry glitters in the shop windows, street cafes do a brisk business in fancy coffees and cakes, and just down the road from a lineup of fine new restaurants, an acquaintance shows off her exquisitely refurbished apartment, complete with hand-decorated tiles on the floor.
		"All our intelligence agencies are under Syrian control," former Lebanese president Amin Gemayel tells me. Lebanon's Maronite Christian patriarch says that the entire Lebanese government has become "a creature of Syria."
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/cRosett/?id=110003028 (1458 words)

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