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YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... Beirut, ordered his fighters to stand down and requested his rival Hezbollah-allied Druze leader Talal Arsalan to hand the area over to the army."I tell my supporters that civil peace, coexistence and stopping war and destruction are more important than any other consideration," Jumblatt told local TV station LBC.Eye-witnesses in Aley, the Druze-majority town at the heart of the clashes,...
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FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... kidnapped and executed rival supporters. The area was turned over to the opposition Druze leader Talal Arsalan, who asked the army to deploy. Hizbullah and Amal fighters later largely withdrew from areas occupied in west Beirut after the army pledged that Hizbullah's secure telephone network would not be dismantled. The overturn of power in Mount Lebanon was another major blow to...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... kidnapped and executed rival supporters. The area was turned over to the opposition Druze leader Talal Arsalan, who asked the army to deploy. Hizbullah and Amal fighters later largely withdrew from areas occupied in west Beirut after the army pledged that Hizbullah's secure telephone network would not be dismantled.The overturn of power in Mount Lebanon was another major blow to the...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... kidnapped and executed rival supporters. The area was turned over to the opposition Druze leader Talal Arsalan, who asked the army to deploy. Hizbullah and Amal fighters later largely withdrew from areas occupied in west Beirut after the army pledged that Hizbullah's secure telephone network would not be dismantled.The overturn of power in Mount Lebanon was another major blow to the...
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... Beirut, ordered his fighters to stand down and requested his rival Hezbollah-allied Druze leader Talal Arsalan to hand the area over to the army. "I tell my supporters that civil peace, coexistence and stopping war and destruction are more important than any other consideration," Jumblatt told local TV station LBC. Eye-witnesses in Aley, the Druze-majority town at the heart of the...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... Beirut, ordered his fighters to stand down and requested his rival Hezbollah-allied Druze leader Talal Arsalan to hand the area over to the army. "I tell my supporters that civil peace, coexistence and stopping war and destruction are more important than any other consideration," Jumblatt told local TV station LBC. Eye-witnesses in Aley, the Druze-majority town at the heart of the...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... in their early 20s, were members of the opposition Lebanese Democratic Party, led by aristocrat Talal Arsalan.They were stopped last week and shot by government loyalists in scenes Lebanon had last known during the 1975-1990 civil war, their relatives said."They thought they were Hezbollah members and simply shot them on the spot. There was not even a battle," one of the relatives...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
BEIRUT, May 11 (Reuters) - Lebanon's pro-government Druze leader Walid Jumblatt asked on Sunday a rival Druze leader allied to the opposition to mediate an end to sectarian clashes in mountains east of Beirut.Jumblatt told LBC television he was asking rival Talal Arsalan to secure the deployment of the Lebanese army in villages that were seeing heavy fighting between Jumblatt's Druze...
