Reply #4: Reuters: Lebanese turn Hariri memory into show of defiance

[Eugene]

Lebanese turn Hariri memory into show of defiance
14 Feb 2007 14:39:58 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Yara Bayoumy

BEIRUT, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The second anniversary of former Prime Minister
Rafik al-Hariri's assassination in central Beirut was anything but a sombre
and mournful affair. The mood was one of defiance rather than grief.

Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese turned the commemoration into yet
another opportunity to finger-point at Syria and blame Lebanon's political
woes on the Hezbollah-led opposition.

Tuesday's fatal twin bus bomb explosions in a Lebanese Christian area only
served to make pro-government loyalists massed in Martyrs Square more
adamant to show up, they said.

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But two years on, the Sunni Muslim-led government's supporters, many of
whom showed up to the rally sporting red caps proclaiming "We really miss
you Hariri", also blamed Hezbollah for being at least complicit in attacks.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14444450.htm