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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
DPA Choufayet (Lebanon), May 11 (DPA) A ceasefire between followers of Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and opposition followers failed Sunday after clashes broke out on Jumblatt's stronghold of Mount Lebanon. Shortly after Druze opposition leader Talal Arslan told DPA that “the ceasefire was established”, battles ragged in the axes of Aitat-Kayfoun. Kayfoun is a Shia village surrounded [...]...
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YaLibnan (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Hezbollah took the violence to the Druze strongholds in Aley, Aytat, Souk el Gharb , Shouifat, Aramoun, Bshamoun , and to the Shouf villages of Mt Lebanon , but an agreement reached by Druze leaders Walid Jumblatt and Talal Arslan put the Lebanese army in charge and The time shown on the left is the local time in Beirut. helped end the cycle of violence 14: 32 OTV: Ministry of public works denies that...
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Choufayet (Lebanon), May 11 (DPA) A ceasefire was established Sunday between followers of the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and opposition followers after clashes broke out on Jumblatt's stronghold of Mount Lebanon. “A ceasefire was established,” Druze opposition leader Talal Arslan told DPA. “I have been in contact with Walid Jumblatt and we agreed that his fighters [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Choufayet, Lebanon - A ceasefire between followers of the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and opposition followers failed Sunday after clashes broke out on Jumblatt's stronghold of Mount Lebanon,Shortly after Druze opposition leader Talal Arslan told Deu...
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From Beirut to the Beltway (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... and starting his proposed dialogue, which he decreed should precede the election of a president. Talal Arslan, the pro-Syrian Druze defeated by Jumblatt in the last elections, has been acting as mediator between Hizbullah and Jumblatt, who had agreed to hand over all PSP positions to the Lebanese army. In a press conference today, Arslan implicitly sent Jumblatt's supporters...
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Middle East Analysis (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... Hezbollah. "The Chouf is calm now after fighting over the weekend in which forces belonging to Talal Arslan, part of the Hezbollah-led opposition, jumped sides and joined alongside Jumblatt's men. As the Progressive Socialist Party website reports: 'The free people of the Shouf roll back an attack by the Iranian militias causing severe casualties in lives and equipment.' "Hence, Jumblatt...
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NDTV (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
A ceasefire was established on Sunday between followers of the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and opposition followers after clashes broke out on Jumblatt's stronghold of Mount Lebanon.''A ceasefire was established,'' Druze opposition leader Talal Arslan said.''I have been in contact with Walid Jumblatt and we agreed that his fighters will hand over their weapons to Lebanese Army,'' Arslan...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... Jumblatt and we agreed that his fighters will hand over their weapons to Lebanese army," said Talal Arslan, an opposition Druze leader said. The overall situation in Lebanon had eased after army soldiers were sent into the second-largest city, where overnight there had been heavy fighting in two areas, Bab al-Tabbneh and Jabal Mohsen. Beirut saw a relative calm return after four days...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... ArticlesToday in Africa & Middle East Several hours after the clashes erupted, Jumblatt urged Talal Arslan, a rival Druse leader allied with Hezbollah, to mediate an end to the mountain clashes. He asked Arslan to secure the deployment of the Lebanese Army in villages that were witnessing heavy fighting."I tell my supporters that civil peace, coexistence and stopping war and...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... was also reported in Shwayfat. Jumblatt, a member of the ruling bloc, urged his Druze rival Talal Arslan, allied with the Hezbollah-led opposition, to turn over areas in the mountaine witnessing heavy fighting under army rule to end hostilities. "Civil peace and halting the destruction are paramount," Jumblatt told Lebanese television, addressing his supporters and urging them to...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Choufayet, Lebanon - A ceasefire was established Sunday between followers of the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and opposition followers after clashes broke out on Jumblatt's stronghold of Mount Lebanon. "A ceasefire was established at 15 GMT," Druze opposition leader Talal Arslan told Deutsche Presse-Agnetur dpa. "I have been in contact with Walid Jumblatt and we agreed that his fighters...
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From Beirut to the Beltway (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... defeat". Update. Check this out. Justifying an attack on Siniora and the Serail? Former Minister Talal Arslan to NTV Television: Siniora is plotting with Israel and foreign embassies against Lebanon's sovereignty, security and economy. (Now Lebanon)
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Pro-government Druze leader Walid Jumblatt appealed for calm, calling on his main Druze opponent - the Hezbollah-allied Talal Arslan - to negotiate an end to the violence and allow Lebanon's army to deploy throughout the hills.
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Lebanese Political Journal (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Druze and Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt and PSP higher up and Minister of Information Ghazi Aridi spoke earlier on TV with trepidation in their voices asking for the Druze to stop fighting. Jumblatt ordered his followers in Aley to hand their weapons over to rival Druze leader and opposition member Talal Arslan. Arslan urged the opposition to stop attacking...
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Blacksmiths of Lebanon (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Here are a few news bits and rumours I picked up from around the web after most of the fighting died down this evening. Two rumours on the [anti-Syrian] Kataeb (Phalangist) website caught my attention: According to the exclusive information made available to the site, two pro-Syrian Druze loyal to Talal Arslan and killed earlier this evening in clashes with FM supporters in Khaldeh, were...
