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Lebanese groups urge president to quit
The call came as anti-Syrian youth activists protested in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, late on Monday to press for Lahoud’s resignation and removal of what they consider to be pro-Syrian agents in Lebanon’s security services.
Monday’s meeting of the coalition of anti-Syrian legislators and politicians came after Gibran Tueni, An-Nahar newspaper’s general manager and Lebanese legislator, was killed in a 12 December car bombing.
Tueni was the third critic of Syria slain in similar circumstances since the 14 February blast that killed Rafiq al-Hariri, the former prime minister, in Beirut.
Al-Hariri’s killing sparked massive protests by Lebanese who accused Syria of involvement.
The anti-Syrian sentiment forced Syria to withdraw its thousands of soldiers from Lebanon in April.
Siham Asseily (C), Tueni’s widow, |
A statement issued by protest organisers in the northern city of Tripoli demanded Lahoud’