BBC (May 7): Aoun's return a key moment

From the BBC Online
Dated Saturday May 7 16:27 GMT (9:27 am PDT)

Aoun's return a key moment
By Kim Ghattas
BBC News, Beirut

For 14 years, his supporters covered Beirut's walls with graffiti reading: "Aoun will return".

Now Michel Aoun, a former army commander-in-chief and one time prime minister is back in Beirut after years of exile in France.


Aoun led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Syrian presence
Members of his party, the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), worked relentlessly this week to plan a huge celebration on Martyrs' Square, in the heart of the city.

Over the last few months, the square has seen hundreds of thousands of Lebanese demonstrate to demand the truth about the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, killed in a massive explosion on 14 February, and to ask for the departure of Syrian troops.

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This fellow's return is bad news. He is as much a destabilizing factor in Lebanon as Syrian troops.

BTW, how do you get the link as that blue underlined headline? Very state of the art.

His defeat ended the Lebanese civil war in 1990.

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