Lebanon News
Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader MP Michel Aoun called on his supporters to take part in demonstrations on Wednesday in a bid to increase pressure on the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to resign. The General Labor Confederation (GLC) is staging a general strike on Wednesday to protest government policies.1
GFLU leader Ghassan Ghosn urged supporters to join a “labor popular” demonstration to be launched at 10 a.m. Wednesday from Beirut’s Barbir Square, progress across the Korniche Mazraa thoroughfare and end up at the Central Bank headquarters in Hamra street to reject a pay raise adopted by the government as not enough.2
Opposition sources to NOW Lebanon: Today?s strike is being postponed because Future Movement supporters have gathered in the location where the demonstration was supposed to take place in order to prevent any clashes. But the protest movement could carry on in the coming days.3
Hezbollah’s internal security apparatus is going high-tech, at least according to its U.S.-backed opponents in a recently escalating war of words between the two groups. The Shiite militant group has placed surveillance cameras near Beirut’s international airport and established its own parallel communications network over large parts of Lebanon.4
The Jailed ex-director of general security Gen. Jamil al-Sayyed claims that former U.N. Investigator Detlev Mehlis had asked him to convince Syrian President Bashar Assad of sacrificing a Syrian citizen in the assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri to work out a settlement to the case.5