Daily Star (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Al-Mustaqbal, a newspaper owned by parliamentary majority leader MP Saad Hariri's family, resumed publication on Wednesday after being shut down last Friday during pro-government and opposition gunmen clashed in the streets of Beirut. The newspaper published in a 12-page format, with a headline that read:
From Beirut to the Beltway (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Future Movement leader Saad Hariri said that there will be no dialogue under the threat of Hizbullah's weapons, and vowed to never surrender to Iran and Syria. He said all sects are depressed over what happened, including the Shias in...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Arab media BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Sunni Muslim leader Saad Hariri pledged on Tuesday there would be no political surrender to what he called a bid by Hizbollah and its Syrian and Iranian backers to impose their will on the nation by force. The Shiite Hizbollah group and its opposition allies have routed supporters of the Sunni-led government in Beirut and hills to the east in fighting...
France24 (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Sunni politician and media businessman Saad Hariri said on Tuesday that he would not "surrender to the Iranian and Syrian regimes", after Hezbollah-led Shi'ite militias defeated his supporters in guerrilla battles over the past six days.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Beirut - As normal life started to return to Beirut Tuesday, the head of Lebanon's ruling majority Saad Hariri warned that his members would not negotiate with the pro-Syrian opposition with guns to our heads. He accused Hezbollah of occupying Beir...
Lebanese Political Journal (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
While Hariri spoke, Amal's NBN TV broadcast images of dead bodies from the Halba battles. It appears that Lebanese Sunni committed this horrific crime and must be held responsible for their actions. However there is no evidence that Saad Hariri ordered the attack. Whereas Hezbollah, Amal, and SSNP leadership is definitely responsible for the terrorism, chaos, deaths, and murders...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
BEIRUT - As fighting rocked the Lebanese capital for a third day on Friday, May 9, the Hizbullah-led opposition rejected a four-point initiative proposed by parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri to settle the Lebanese crisis.
s o s (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Saad Hariri Leader of Lebanese pro-government bloc Saad Hariri returned to Beirut just few days before a controversial decision by Fuad Siniora's cabinet to outlaw a Hezbollah's communication network and sack Beirut Airport's security chief. Citing sources in the US State Department, Hezbollah run TV channel al-Manar reported that Hariri was determined to elect a president for the country with or without...
YaLibnan (Free subscription) | yesterday
Doha- Lebanon's feuding political leaders arrived in Doha for Arab-Sponsored talks aimed at ending the ongoing crisis that has driven the nation to the brinks of civil war. Parliament majority leader MP Saad Hariri and Premier Fouad Siniora had left Beirut Airport aboard an executive jet, while leaders of both the opposition and majority boarded a Qatari jetliner. Former president Amin...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... delegation is headed by Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, who left with parliament majority leader Saad Hariri on Hariri's private plane, Lebanese TV reported.
Under a deal brokered by Arab League mediators, the sides agreed to begin talks that would lead to the election of compromise candidate Michel Suleiman as Lebanese president.
The standoff has prevented parliament...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Leaders of Lebanon's U.S.-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition have left for the highest level talks since the country's political crisis began 18 months ago.The feuding leaders flew Friday to the tiny Gulf nation of Qatar, which will host the talks.The government delegation is headed by Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, who left with parliament majority leader Saad...
Editor: Myself (Persian) (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Opposition Takes Beirutby Nadine Acoury A few hours after yesterday's press conference of Hezbollah Secretary General , opposition fighters occupied the offices of the pro-government Future Movement of Hariri in Beirut, and battles focused on the Koraytem palace (Saad Hariri residence), which was hit by rockets, the Sérail (seat of the Siniora government), and the home of Walid...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... said the opposition and majority would take separate planes. The head of the ruling majority, Saad Hariri was said to have left on a private jet. Opposition sources said Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah would not go to Doha for security reasons. Hezbollah members of parliament (MPs) Mohammed Raad, Mohammed Fneish and Hussein Hajj Hassan would represent Nasrallah at the talks,...
Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns armed attacks and threats by Hezbollah against four news media owned by the family of Future Movement leader Saad Hariri. “Lebanon is undergoing a serious political crisis and we hope the gagging of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority's news media is not a harbinger of even greater violence.”
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Lebanese Sunni Muslim leader Saad Hariri vowed Tuesday that his U.S.-backed movement will never surrender to the militant Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah and its allies, but his words rang hollow after a week of swift and humiliating defeats at the hands of opposition militias.
