President George W. Bush meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri
WAP2002041701 - WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in the Oval office of the White House in Washington on April 17, 2002. cc/cc/Chris Corder UPI
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As Western powers prepare to provide weapons to rebels in Syria's civil war, Iran is reported to be planning to send a 4,000-man contingent of Revolutionary Guards to beef up President Bashar Assad's forces.
Lebanon's military is struggling to maintain a modicum of security in a country that's lurching toward another sectarian showdown, fueled largely by the civil war raging next door in Syria, a state that's shed much Lebanese blood over the years.
Recent clashes between Hezbollah and Syrian rebels on Lebanese soil have heightened alarm that Lebanon is becoming a new front in Syria's civil war.
Hezbollah has taken heavy losses while backing regime forces in Syria, heightening concerns the Shiite movement's heading for a showdown with Sunni jihadists.
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon expressed outrage when a tabloid newspaper in Beirut published instructions given to witnesses in its investigation.
The political crisis in Lebanon worsened following Friday's political bombshell when Prime Minister Najib Mikati resigned.
A tribunal judge said he delayed the trail against Hezbollah suspects implicated in the 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
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As Lebanon marks the anniversary of the assassination of Rafik Hariri, his allies still face the threat of assassination amid political turmoil.
Islamist militant cells linked to al Qaida appear to be proliferating in Lebanon, spurred in large part by the growing presence of Sunni hard-liners in Syria.
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