Posted by Matt in April 26th, 2008 |
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Syria,
Angry Street,
Beirut,
damascus,
Former Prime Minister,
Lebanon,
Military Presence,
Paralysed,
Political Deadlock,
Powerbrokers,
Pulling Strings,
Pullout,
Rafiq Hariri,
Street Demonstrations,
Syria
Three years after Syria ended its near 30-year military presence in Lebanon, Damascus stands accused of still pulling strings there and leaving its tiny neighbour paralysed by political deadlock.
On April 26, 2005, Syria withdrew the last of its officials who had reigned as the true powerbrokers in Beirut, as the final 14,000 troops of a [...]
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Posted by Matt in March 9th, 2008 |
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Amazon.Com,
New Cold War,
Russia,
Amazon Asin,
Chicken Little,
Cold War Rhetoric,
Crackpot,
Criminal Charges,
Criminal Trials,
Double Jeopardy,
Former Prime Minister,
Hot One,
Jeopardy,
Judgment,
Mikhail Kasyanov,
Missiles,
Nuclear Weapons,
Red Square,
Resurgence,
Russian Economy,
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Soviet State,
Vladimir Putin
By the third week of January this year, we heard Russia announce that it would not hesitate to be the first to use nuclear weapons in battle, that it would resume this May parading tanks and missiles through Red Square in the Soviet fashion, that it would reestablish the application of double jeopardy in criminal [...]
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