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...The decision was quickly endorsed by the country’s new president, Fouad Masoum....
...“America is not representing any democracy, it represents Hosni Mubarak only – he is the sole agent in this region of the Americans,” said Emad Fouad, a 44-year-old geologist....
...Saudi Arabia, one of the Middle East’s Sunni powerhouses, is a strong backer of the beleaguered pro-western government of Fouad Siniora, the prime minister, and has sought to counter Shia Iran’s growing...
...Washington has been a key backer of the government of Fouad Siniora, the prime minister, while Hizbollah is supported by Iran and Syria....
...He denied that the US had itself encouraged Fouad Siniora’s government to take the steps preceding the clash – the move to outlaw Hizbollah’s private telecoms network and sack the head of security at Beirut...
...Diplomats say they are waiting for a clear request from Fouad Siniora, the Lebanese prime minister, before moving ahead with establishing the court under chapter 7 of the UN charter....
...hours after Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbollah leader, vowed to stage peaceful protests demanding fresh elections unless his opponents agreed to the creation of a national unity government to replace that of Fouad...
...US-UK support for Israel, moreover, has helped undermine the pro-western government in Beirut of Fouad Siniora, now reeling from this latest blow....
...Meanwhile, in Strasbourg Fouad Siniora, the Lebanese prime minister, will address senior members of the European parliament....
...Ms Rice arrived in Beirut on her way to Israel for talks with Fouad Siniora, Lebanese prime minister, and other officials at the start of a Middle East mission to secure a “sustainable” ceasefire with Israel...
...Yet this was hardly the scenario envisaged by Washington last year when Fouad Siniora, who took over after the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister, was seen as a leader who...
...As talks continued at the UN yesterday, the US sent David Welch, assistant secretary of state, to Beirut, where he met Fouad Siniora, Lebanon’s prime minister, and Nabih Berri, the moderate Shia leader who...
...He said Israel had been asked to ensure that the government of Fouad Siniora survived, but the White House declined to comment on repeated Israeli strikes against Lebanese army units....
...Bombing the Lebanese army and weakening the government of Fouad Siniora will not drive Hizbollah from southern Lebanon....
...A few years ago Fouad Ajami, a Lebanese émigré now living in Washington and an unrepentant enthusiast of the Iraq war, wrote a book called Dream Palace of the Arabs in which he bemoaned what he saw as the...
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