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Article: LEBANON THROWN INTO POLITICAL TUMULT.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- November 24, 2007
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Byline: Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon's political tumult intensified as President Emile Lahoud said the country is in a "state of emergency" and handed security powers to the army before he left office Friday without a successor. The rival, pro-Western Cabinet rejected the declaration.
Lahoud's final announcement created new confusion in an already unsettled situation, which many Lebanese fear could explode into violence between supporters of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora's Western-backed government and the pro-Syria opposition led by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
The departure of Lahoud, a staunch ally of the Syrian regime during nine years in ...