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A Lebanese soldier bandages the head of an injured colleague during a protest in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. Sunnis protested the rising power of the Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah on Tuesday, burning tires and torching a van belonging to Al Jazeera as Lebanese lawmakers gave the militant group's pick for prime minister enough support to form the next government. (AP Photo)
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Lebanese Prime Minister designate Najib Mikati speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Assaad Ahmad)
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Lebanese lawmaker Nagib Mikati, a billionaire businessman with close relations to Syria, is emerging as a candidate favored by Hezbollah to head Lebanon's next government. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil, File)
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A man walks past a picture of Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the Sunni neighborhood of Tarik Jdideh, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. A U.N. tribunal filed the first indictment Monday in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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A covered statue of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri stands in Beirut. Eleven of 30 Lebanese Cabinet members, all supporters of Hezbollah, resigned Wednesday, sinking the coalition government after months of disagreement over how to respond to a U.N. probe into the assassination. (Associated Press)
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President Obama meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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A partial solar eclipse is seen through clouds over a church statue of the Virgin Mary, at the southern village of Maghdouche, Lebanon, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Associated Press Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri disavowed quotes attributed to him in a pro-Syrian Lebanese newspaper.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Shiite men walk in a massive procession Thursday in Nabatieh, Lebanon. Many cut themselves with swords or lash themselves with chains to mourn the seventh-century death in battle of the beloved Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson.
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Students hug each other during the "Free Hugs" campaign as they commemorate World Aids Day at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. The campaign is an initiative to show support and combat discrimination against people infected with AIDS. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in a 2005 bombing in Beirut along with 22 others.
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An Israeli army vehicle is seen in the village of Ghajar between northern Israel and Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a plan to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday to withdraw from the northern half of Ghajar, recaptured during the 2006 war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate John R. Kasich addresses supporters on Friday in Lebanon, Ohio. Mr. Kasich is a former congressman.
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ISRAEL'S ENEMY: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is considered by many of Lebanon's common folk as a protector from Israeli dominance. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Children flash the victory sign as people line the streets to welcome Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the highway leading to Beirut Airport, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)
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A giant poster of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is on display in the southern village of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010, in preparation for Mr. Ahmadinejad's visit there. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Lebanese soldiers patrol in front of a mosque of the Sunni Muslim Association of Islamic Charitable Project, known as the Al-Ahbash group, after clashes erupted between group members and supporters of the Shi'ite Hezbollah group in the Bourj Abu Haidar area near Beirut's downtown on Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Israeli soldiers use a crane as they cut a tree next to the border fence with Lebanon, near the southern village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, on Tuesday. Lebanese and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago, authorities said. (Associated Press)
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An Israeli tank maneuvers near the site of an exchange of fire between Israeli and Lebanese troops along the border between Israel and Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Israeli soldiers came under fire Tuesday during a routine patrol along the Lebanese border, the army said, sparking the most intense clashes with forces inside Lebanon since a fierce war four years ago. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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An Israeli soldier cleans a weapon as he stands near the site of an exchange of fire between Israeli and Lebanese troops along the border between Israel and Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Israeli soldiers came under fire Tuesday during a routine patrol along the Lebanese border, the army said, sparking the most intense clashes with forces inside Lebanon since a fierce war four years ago. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
