Beirut holds emergency summit as crisis with Hezbollah looms
Published On Fri Jul 30 2010
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By Olivia Ward
Foreign Affairs Reporter
Counterterrorism Degrees

BS/MS in Counterterrorism
Taught by Former CIA, FBI and SS

Lebanon has been steeped in death and destruction, with more than 150,000 people killed since the 1970s, and assassination a common political tool. Not for nothing is Beirut’s focal point called Martyrs’ Square.

So the urgent arrival of Saudi King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar Assad to the Lebanese capital Friday, to avert a new outbreak of violence over the findings of a UN tribunal, is a signal of how fragile is the country’s peace.
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