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Titolo: Il NYT sulle elezioni libanesi

By John Kifner The New York Times
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2005
BEIRUT The bright promise of the "Cedar Revolution" in this fractious,
bloodied country is dissolving in old vendettas and the unsettling re-
emergence of a powerful figure, General Michel Aoun.
Aoun, once the nationalist commander of the Lebanese Army, scored a
stunning victory over rivals in the Maronite Christian heartland,
according to official results of the voting released late Monday,
catapulting himself into political dominance and dealing a crushing
blow to the new anti-Syrian opposition.
That shift appeared sealed on Monday night while Aoun met in the north,
the last of four regions to vote - next Sunday - to lock in alliances
with two powerful Syrian supporters. They nurse deep grudges against a
jailed Christian warlord championed by the opposition.
Those alliances appeared to preclude any chance that the multireligious
opposition will gain a majority in Parliament.
That greatly increases the prospects for a factionalized Parliament
that will make it difficult, if not impossible, for the opposition -
which had been confident of an overwhelming majority - to oust
President Émile Lahoud, hand-picked by Syria and kept in office beyond
his term.
In the seacoast towns and mountain villages north and east of Beirut,
Aoun's slate of candidates, including himself, won 15 of 16 seats by
huge margins.
Parliamentary seats, as with all political power in Lebanon, are
apportioned by religious sect.
By pushing aside the prominent families that have long dominated the
Maronite Christian sector, as well as the anti-Syrian slate blessed by
its religious leaders, Aoun, as the newspaper As Safir wrote Monday
morning, "has established an influence on the Christian arena
unmatched" by any political party of leader.
Among the losing candidates was Nassib Lahoud, a cousin and rival of
the pro-Syrian president. He was among the handful of deputies who
voted against Syria's demand last September to amend the constitution
to give Lahoud three more years. And he was the favored candidate of
the opposition to become president. Under the unwritten National Pact
that governs Lebanon, the president must be a Maronite, like Aoun.
Only days ago, the opposition was confidently predicting that it would
have 80 or 90 seats to control the 128 seats in Parliament. The voting
on Sunday brought the opposition numbers to only 45.
With 28 seats at stake in the final round in the far north - a Sunni,
Maronite and Greek Orthodox area - it seems most unlikely that it can
reach the 65 needed for a majority.
In that northern area on Monday, Aoun was escorted by his ally,
Suleiman Franjieh, scion of a powerful Maronite clan, to form an
alliance with former Prime Minister Omar Karami, a Sunni and, like
Franjieh, a longtime friend of Syria.
Also, Karami bears a particular grudge against the Christian militia
leader Samir Geagea, the imprisoned warlord. The opposition alliance
wants him freed as a gesture of national reconciliation. Geagea was
convicted of blowing up Karami's brother, then-Prime Minister Rashid
Karami, in his helicopter in 1987. He is also blamed for the slaying of
Franjieh's father, Tony, the leader of the family militia, earlier in
the civil war.
Although some have portrayed Aoun as a right-wing Christian, he
described himself in an election eve interview as a secularist who
wants to change the Lebanese system.
"I am the only one from the opposition to fight the corruption," he
said in a borrowed villa in a lush Maronite neighborhood of mountain
mansions.
"They were never in the opposition," he said of the current leaders of
the opposition. "They collaborated with Syria. Therefore, the real
fight will start after the election."
In 1990, Aoun took on the Syrian Army and lost in a fierce battle that
ended the civil war. Taking refuge in the French Embassy, he was
spirited into exile to become the idol of many opposed to Syrian
control here, particularly young Maronites who followed his Internet
communications.
But since returning, he has broken with the new opposition leaders,
calling them a corrupt political class that cooperated over the years
with Syria. With the army gone, he has said, he no longer has a quarrel
with Syria.
And he has not joined the cry to oust Lahoud, himself a former general.
The opposition contends that Aoun was brought back to split their
ranks - an arrest warrant was suspended and he has a special government
security guard - and that his military background ties him to the state
military security services that are linked, in turn, to Syria.

and dealing a crushing blow to the new anti-Syrian opposition.
Bella puttanata.
1) non gareggiava da solo, quindi solo un giornalista imbecille
assegnerebbe a lui tutti i meriti
2) hanno vinto solo *UNA* delle *QUATTRO* tornate elettorali.  Delle
altre tre ne hanno *PERSE DUE*, con schiacciante vittoria
dell'opposizione.
-Stefano

 assegnerebbe a lui tutti i meriti
Immagino che straccerai questo "imbecille" del NYT nel tuo prossimo
editoriale su "Il campanaccio di Fontanafredda", pregevole testata alla
quale collabori...
Namib :)

 wrote in message
news:DVlse.10726$b5.5...@news3.tin.it...
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#_L'hanno gia` buttato fuori dal "Notiziario di Capracotta"?
Giano

Immagino che straccerai questo "imbecille" del NYT
E perche' dovrei?  Prima o poi ci pensera' lo stesso NYT come avvenne
per Jayson Blair.
Ma tu magari manco sai chi sia, vero? :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

Giano ha scritto:
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si, bisognava collocare santini dopo i servigi resi alla gang di
tonibaruch. E poi dicono che l'informazione non e' in mano ad una lobby <g>
-- 
perle di artamantonibaruch su IPI : 
- sulle eliminazioni "mirate" di Sharon : "a mia memoria non esiste
nemmeno un targeted killing che abbia causato decine di vittime civili"
- Kahanisti, brava gente <g> : "Li considero nazionalisti religiosi,
antidemocratici, estremisti e terroristi. Razzisti, ... , mi sembra di no"
(togli le VVV per scrivermi)
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 -Stefano
#_Aspettiamo tutti che tu lo mostri a tutti noi e al mondo terracqueo! LOLLA
G.  rrrr


#_Ahhh! Ecco perche`il cavalier-sellato e`assente da qualche di' !!...E`in
apprendistato in quel del Capracotta? :)
Giano

lobby <g>
La lobby di Tonibaruch?  Parli della famigerata ZOG che controlla tutto
il mondo della comunicazione? :)
*ROTFL*
-Stefano

 Ma tu magari manco sai chi sia, vero? :)
Certo. Ricordo lo speciale che gli avete dedicato su "Il campanaccio di
Fontanafredda" :)
Namib

Fontanafredda" :)
C.V.D. :)
-Stefano