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Article: Roundup: Lebanon's Lahoud orders army to maintain security beforestepping down
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 23, 2007
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Roundup: Lebanon's Lahoud orders army to maintain security
beforestepping down
BEIRUT, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Outgoing Lebanese President Emile
Lahoud Friday ordered the army to enforce law and order
throughoutLebanon, claiming that "risks of a state of emergency"
prevail over the nation, local Naharnet news website reported.
Lahoud said in the three-article statement that the move goes
into effect after his term expires at midnight Friday (2200 GMT).
"The risks of a state of emergency prevail over all the
territories of the Republic of Lebanon as of Nov. 24," the statement
said.
"The army is assigned the task of maintaining security and all
military forces would be placed at the army's ...