UN will handle Lebanese crisis if Arab plan fails – Kouchner
Daily Star – Lebanon – Beirut,Lebanon
Also Monday, Saudi Arabia urged Syria to use its influence on the Lebanese opposition to persuade it to accept the Arab League plan. “Syria should convince …
www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?ed
ition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=88044

Turkey, Syria sign mutual energy, pipeline accord
PennEnergy – Houston,TX,USA
14 — Turkey and Syria have signed an agreement aimed at enhancing cooperation between their two countries in a number of fields, including a major pipeline …
www.pennenergy.com/display_article/316997/7/PRARC/none/
GenIn/1/Turkey,-Syria-sign-mutual-energy,-pipeline-accord/

Report: Syria, Turkey Agree On Changes To Syrian Schoolbooks
A Turkish source reported to the Syrian opposition website Al-Hakikah that during his visit to Turkey, Syrian vice-premier ‘Abadallah Al-Dardari agreed that the Syrian Education Ministry would make changes in the country’s official . …
www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/4579.htm

Syria Attends Mideast Peace Talks for Free Continental Breakfast
By By Brijit(By Brijit)
Source: The Onion | Author: The Onion | Date: 14 Jan 2008. Years of fighting have ended thanks to complimentary breakfast pastries, reports this mocking story on a hotel peace conference. The Syrians are at the table, but only after …
www.brijit.com/abstract/11821/Syria-Attends-
Mideast-Peace-Talks-for-Free-Continental-Breakfast

Back to UN if Arab plan for Lebanon fails: French FM
AFP –
But the Shiite militant Hezbollah, which leads the Syria- and Iran-backed opposition, insists the opposition have a third of the seats in a new 30-member …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ivoAHYDanZe1kxKyivoF3j1TEO1g

Damascus slams Arab leaders for tolerating Bush’s ‘criticism of Syria’
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
By DPA A newspaper affiliated with the Syrian government on Monday slammed Arab regimes who tolerated US President George W Bush’s “criticism of Syria” in …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/944630.html

Lebanon ‘Will Be Lost’ Unless It Heeds Arab Plan – Mubarak
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has warned that Lebanon would be lost and the Arabs would “wash their hands” of the whole country if the Arab League initiative to end the longstanding political crisis in the country is not implemented …
middleeastprogress.org/2008/01/lebanon-will
-be-lost-unless-it-heeds-arab-plan-mubarak/

YPFP Member Bilal Saab on Lebanon Panel at Brookings with Martin Indyk
LEBANON: The FORGOTTEN CRISIS. A Saban Center Special Policy Forum with. Jeffrey Feltman US Ambassador, Lebanon. Bilal Y. Saab Senior Research Assistant, Saban Center at Brookings. David Schenker Senior Fellow and Director of Arab …
www.ypfp.org/ypfp_member_bilal_saab_on_
lebanon_panel_at_brookings_with_martin_indyk

Israeli drones violate Lebanese airspace
By via Daily Star, Lebanon(SF Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay))
Monday, January 14, 2008 : Israel once again violated Lebanon’s sovereignty over the weekend when an Israeli drone entered Lebanese airspace at 21:30 Saturday, flying over the sea off the coast of Beirut. The aircraft left Lebanese …
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/14/18472339.php

Berlin lowers terror warning from Lebanon
Islamic Republic News Agency – Tehran,Iran
German security officials have scaled down their terror warning following the latest terror alert from Lebanese authorities, the spokesman for the Interior …
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0801141963193440.htm

Saudi Arabia urges Syria to help end Lebanon crisis
Ya Libnan – Beirut,Lebanon
“Syria should convince those who listen to her in Lebanon to endorse this plan, which Damascus approved,” Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told…
yalibnan.com/site/archives/2008/01/saudi_arabia_ur.php

Israel Blames International Terrorists For Rocket Firing From Lebanon
Naharnet – Beirut,Lebanon
Israel believes militants affiliated with international “terror” groups fired two rockets from Lebanon into its northern territory last week, Prime Minister …
www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0
/F058D1FDDF8DC0ACC22573D000569401?OpenDocument

Al-Faisal Urges Syria to Convince its Allies of the Arab Initiative
Naharnet – Beirut,Lebanon
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal on Monday urged Syria to convince its Lebanon allies to accept the Arab initiative aimed at settling the …
www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/481
5CCFC970EC01BC22573D00058B570?OpenDocument

Syria: PLO factions will not participate in Damascus conference
Adnkronos International English – Roma,Lazio,Italy
… in opposition to the Annapolis conference. But the meeting has been postponed many times at the request of Syria, which is expected to host the event.
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=1.0.1768448483

Israel, Bush, Hezbollah, and Lebanon
By MarxistFromLebanon(MarxistFromLebanon)
Bush doesn’t seem to understand that Israel’s past cost Lebanon a lot. Ever since Israel did the Litani operation back in the 1970s, a lot of the South despised Israel. Actually, then they also despised the Palestinians, …
marxistfromlebanon.blogspot.com/2008/
01/israel-bush-hezbollah-and-lebanon.html

Lebanon: 2007 Year in Review
Middle East North Africa Financial Network – Amman,Jordan
(MENAFN – Oxford Business Group) In many ways, Lebanon ended 2007 much as it entered the year, mired in political uncertainty and turmoil, deeply in debt …
www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093181396

The New Philosophy of Martyrdom
By MarxistFromLebanon(MarxistFromLebanon)
This does not mean that these members became progressive, oh no, they are stuck in the whirlpool of being trapped in 14th of March coalition and in their endless “epical” heroic battles against Syria and Iran. Having said all that, …
marxistfromlebanon.blogspot.com/2008/
01/new-philosophy-of-martyrdom.html

Turkey, Iraq and Syria discuss water, utilizing Euphrates and …
New Anatolian – Ankara,Turkey
Ministers of Syria, Iraq and Turkey dealing with water resources on Saturday asserted that there was no row over the quota of each from the water of the …
www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-30669.html

Italian Communist Party Describes Syria’s role as Positive
SANA – Syrian Arab News Agency – Damascus,Syria
For his part, Head of the delegation stressed Syria’s pivotal role in solving problems of the region and in achieving peace and stability, pointing out to …
www.sana.org/eng/21/2008/01/13/156210.htm

A Road Map for Syria’s Comeback to Lebanon
Naharnet – Beirut,Lebanon
Syria has not “cashed the price it wants for facilitating the presidential election” in Lebanon and it appears that no one is willing to pay such a price, …
www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/B906
D8D71F686C34C22573D000450A11?OpenDocument

Fneish: No Partnership with Opposition, No Solution to Lebanon Crisis
Naharnet – Beirut,Lebanon
Resigned Hizbullah cabinet minister Mohammed Fneish on Monday warned that there will be no solution to the Lebanon political crisis unless the government …
www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/3FD9
B08BF81BA6A7C22573D0003C1CEF?OpenDocument

OBG: Lebanon, A Year in Review
By GPC(GPC)
In OBG, here. “In many ways, Lebanon ended 2007 much as it entered the year, mired in political uncertainty and turmoil, deeply in debt and with an economy seeking stability …”
friday-lunch-club.blogspot.com/2008/
01/obg-lebanon-year-in-review.html

Israel-Syria treaty the key to Mideast peace
Philadelphia Inquirer – Philadelphia,PA,USA
Over reported Iranian objections, Syria was represented at Annapolis. Two weeks ago in Damascus, President Basher al Assad told US Rep. …
www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20080114_
Israel-Syria_treaty_the_key_to_Mideast_peace.html

Syria condemns all forms of terrorism
PRESS TV – Tehran,Iran
Syria has condemned all forms of terrorism including the state terrorism exercised by Israel in the occupied Arab lands. During the Meeting of Dialogue of …
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=38673&sectionid=351020206

President Bush was quoted as saying Israel’s air strike in Syria …
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – New York,NY,USA
During his visit to Israel last week, Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert discussed the September 6 attack in northern Syria, Defense News reported …
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106381.html

Report: Bush calls IAF strike in Syria an ‘important preemptive …
Jerusalem Post – Israel
COM STAFF US President George W. Bush called the IAF strike in Syria an“important preemptive strike” during his visit to Israel, the American Defense News …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=11999649174
70&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Council of Ministers hears reports on implementation of agreements …
Sudanese Media Center – Sudan
Meanwhile, the Cabinet further heard a report by the Minister of International Cooperation on the joint High Committee between Sudan and Syria and pledged …
www.smc.sd/en/artopic.asp?artID=22813&aCK=EA

Bush Privately Lauds Israeli Attack on Syria
DefenseNews.com (subscription) – USA
19 interview with the Austrian newspaper Die Press, Assad was quoted as saying Syria rejected overtures thought to have come from Khan back in 2001. …
www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3298844&C=mideast

Arab impatience with Lebanon says a lot
Daily Star – Lebanon – Beirut,Lebanon
By Marc J Sirois How bad has the situation in Lebanon become? So bad that an Arab world intimately familiar with (and infinitely, fatalistically tolerant …
www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?
edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=88011

Special report: Assad considers Lebanon a Syrian territory
Ya Libnan – Beirut,Lebanon
Beirut- Al Watan newspaper of Kuwait has disclosed that president Bashar al Assad considers Lebanon a Syrian territory but run by rebels that threaten the …
yalibnan.com/site/archives/2008/01/special_report.php