الخازن يأمل عودة الفريق الحاكم إلى وجدانه الوطني سأل رئيس المجلس العام الماروني الوزير السابق وديع الخازن: <هل كان ضروريا أن تصل الأمور إلى حافة المواجهة المليئة بالمخاطر على الأمن والمصير ما دمنا اتفقنا جميعا على مبدأ قيام المحكمة ذات الطابع الدولي واختلفنا على الآلية الميكانيكية التي يحاول البعض تمريرها على بياض؟ اضاف <وإذا تمكنت […]
www.daralhayat.com عثرت امس دورية من الدرك على عبوة ناسفة لم تنفجر على بعد 200 متر من منزل النائب السابق فريد الخازن وضعت قرب مكب للنفايات، وقام الخبراء بتعطيلها. وكان الخازن ادلى امس في بكركي بتصريحات عنيفة دعا فيها العماد ميشال عون الى عدم التظاهر في
November 26, 2006. Updated by Khazen.org. Outside the house of Cheikh Farid Haikal el Khazen, they have found in a bag 3 bombs. Thankfully these bombs did not explode. Earlier today Cheikh Farid visited the patriarch and warned against any demonstrations attempt in the Christian regions of Lebanon because this will rise tensions between Christians.
By ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press Writer, BEIRUT, Lebanon – Tens of thousands of Lebanese gathered Thursday to bid farewell to an assassinated politician, and his anti-Syrian allies turned his funeral into a powerful show of force against opponents led by Hezbollah militants and their backers in Damascus. The coffin of Pierre Gemayel, wrapped in the flag of his Phalange Party
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Lebanese choked downtown Beirut to pay tribute to assassinated Christian leader Pierre Gemayel on Thursday.Sunni Muslim, Druze and Christian leaders have accused Syria of killing Gemayel, scion of one of Lebanon’s most prominent Maronite families. Damascus has condemned his murder.
The anti-Syrian camp says the aim of the Syrian-backed opposition is to weaken Lebanon’s Western-supported government and scupper a U.N.-backed tribunal to try suspects in last year’s assassination of ex-premier Rafik al-Hariri."They will not suppress our demands for the truth, justice and the international court," Druze leader Walid Jumblatt told the crowd, speaking behind a bullet-proof screen. He stressed this was no time for strife. "At this moment and above pain and above wounds, we are for dialogue," he said.
Our sincere condoleances to the gemayel Family and the Kataeb party and this great loss to Lebanon. Pierre Gemayel a unique asset to Lebanon.
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Prominent anti-Syrian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday, his Phalange Party Voice of Lebanon radio station reported. The shooting will certainly heighten the political tension in Lebanon.
Gemayel was rushed to a nearby hospital, according to the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. and the Voice of Lebanon, the Phalange Party mouthpiece reported. The party later announced that he was dead.Gemayel, the minister of industry and son of former President Amin Gemayel.He was named for his grandfather, who founded the Phalange Party in 1936 to exert Christian power in Lebanon. It dominated Christian politics for decades after Lebanon’s independence from France in 1943.
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History
Lebanon in the Period of Cheikh Abi Nader El Khazen
Written in year 2006
In 1621, Emir Fakhr Al Din appointed Cheikh Abi Nader and his uncle Cheikh Abi Safi el Khazen governors of Bsharri and assigned them the whole country. Following this, Cheikh Abi Nader el Khazen and his relatives, Khazen Cheikhs, started developing Keserwan their county and confirm its status building churches and abbeys; they promoted the Catholic faith in areas they controlled whether in Mount Lebanon or else where; this boosted them fame and glory.
Cheikh Abi Nader had a son called Abi Nawfal; a brilliant mind and excellent discretion led with rich experience in managing authority. Abi Nawfal was a Europeanised man and his father, Cheikh Abi Nader, relied on him majorly and assigned him critical issues whether in his presence or absence as to Emir Fakhr Al Din’s governing and authority. Cheikh Abi Nader would send him to
In 1630, an earthquake caused great damage to the castle which led to the death of his son Cheikh Nawfal the first and his wife, a Hobeiche family daughter and mother of Cheikh Nawfal the first. A year after in 1631, Cheikh Abi Nawfal rebuilt the castle.
BEIRUT (BBC) – A sixth minister has resigned from the Lebanese government, which was plunged into a political crisis when all five Shia cabinet members quit. Environment Minister Yacoub Sarraf, a Christian, is an ally of pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud like his Shia colleagues from Hezbollah and Amal.
They resigned after calls for a greater role in government were rejected. But a cabinet meeting to consider a UN plan to try killers of former PM Rafik Hariri went ahead despite the ructions. "I don’t see myself belonging to any constitutional authority in which an entire sect is absent," Mr. Sarraf said in his letter of resignation, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
Mr. Lahoud said on Sunday that as a result of the resignations, the government had lost its legitimacy – but constitutional experts have disputed his interpretation of the situation. The cabinet, normally made up Christian and Muslim ministers in equal numbers, has retained the two-thirds of its members necessary to make up a quorum.
All five Hizbullah and Amal ministers resigned from Premier Fouad Saniora
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Rival Lebanese leaders will meet again on Thursday to try to agree on a government reshuffle following two days of talks aimed at defusing a political crisis that has threatened to spill into the streets. The talks, which began on Monday with a pledge by Lebanon’s politicians to refrain from attacking each other in the media, focused on Tuesday on the key issue —
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who convened the talks, described the session as "frank, deep and rich" and said the leaders would use the break to consider various proposed compromises such as expanding the government to include more opposition members"Bringing down the government is not proposed. Personally, I am not proposing a new prime minister or a new government statement or a vote of confidence in the government," Berri told reporters after the session.
"The government could expand or contract. In this case, participation cannot be except with more than a third." He set Thursday as the date for the next meeting.A political source said the leaders had not made major progress and divisions remained deep, but that Thursday’s session could be decisive.