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Iraq mourns 60 bomb victims as US reviews tactics
 By: Dave Clark
AFP
December 3, 2006
BAGHDAD - Shell-shocked Baghdadis Sunday sifted through the bloody wreckage from the latest deadly bomb attack on their city, as the United States sought a new strategy to pull Iraq back from the abyss.
The death toll from Saturday's triple car bombing rose to 60 overnight as more men, women, and children succumbed to wounds suffered when the blasts ripped through a crowded shopping street at nightfall, medics said.
In Beirut, signs of Lebanon's growing fault lines
 By Anthony Shadid
BEIRUT, In a city of frontiers, Beirut built another border Saturday.
On one side of coiled barbed wire and metal barricades were armored personnel carriers manned by soldiers in red berets toting U.S.-made M-16 rifles and guarding the colonnaded, stone government headquarters where Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and other ministers have taken up residence. On the other were the fervent young men of Hezbollah and its allies, who have turned a downtown tailored for the rich into the site of an open-ended protest to force the government's fall.
US vies to boost war-torn Lebanon via trade pact
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government signed a trade pact with Lebanon in a step that officials hailed as promoting the economic and democratic success of the embattled country.
The Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) was signed in Beirut by Lebanese Minister of Economy and Trade Sami Haddad and Assistant US Trade Representative Shaun Donnelly.
Siniora defiant as Lebanon opposition calls protest
By Nadim Ladki
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A defiant Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said he would not stand down after Pro-Syrian Hezbollah and its allies called for a mass protest in Beirut on Friday to try to force out the government.
Hezbollah, Allies Call for Mass Protests in Lebanon
By Challiss McDonough
Beirut - 30 November 2006
The pro-Syrian opposition in Lebanon, led by Hezbollah, has called for mass protests aimed at bringing down the anti-Syrian government and replacing it with what they call a government of national unity. As VOA Correspondent Challiss McDonough reports from Beirut, there are concerns that the anti-government demonstrations could spark violence, coming so soon after the assassination of the Lebanese minister of industry last week.
By Martin Asser
BBC News
Gemayels have been at the center of Lebanese politics since the 1930s
Pierre Gemayel was a scion of one of Lebanon's most prominent Christian political dynasties - although he himself never touched the peaks of power and influence reached by his forebears.
But he will be remembered as the first serving government minister to be slain in a series of political assassinations that have rocked Lebanon since the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005.
The name Gemayel is inextricably linked to the rightwing Maronite Christian party, the Phalange, founded by his grandfather (also named Pierre) in 1936 and one of the main players in the bloody civil war that gripped Lebanon through the 1970s and 1980s.
As Lebanon mourns Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, left, demonstrators, officials place blame on neighbor Syria
By Dion Nissenbaum
McClatchy Jerusalem Bureau
BEIRUT, Lebanon - The chances that Lebanon could plunge into a renewed civil war dramatically increased Tuesday when a prominent anti-Syrian leader of the nation's fragile pro-Western government was gunned down in a brazen political assassination.
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