Electricity Relay to Lebanon Starts (Zawya)
30 May 2009 Beirut – Electricity relay to Lebanon started on Friday in Ksarah electricity grid in Bekaa via the eight-way electric grid line.
Lebanon arrests two more in Israeli spy inquiry (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters BEIRUT, May 31 (Reuters) – A Lebanese army colonel and a senior retired customs officer have been detained on suspicion of spying for Israel, security sources said on Sunday. The army officer was …
Major security plan for Lebanon poll: minister (Gulf Times)
Lebanon will deploy 50,000 police and soldiers to prevent any outbreak of violence during the June 7 parliamentary election as part of a major security plan, Interior Minister Ziad Baroud has said.
Organic farmers in Lebanon face export hurdles (The Daily Star Lebanon)
Producers of organic food in Lebanon are facing challenges exporting their crops to the world market because of the lack of farms and marketing capacities, said Haifa Abbas, marketing manager of Al-Marej organic food store. “Chemical free farms are very rare in Lebanon and we cannot export to the outside world.
Major security plan drawn up for Lebanon vote (Middle East Online)
Lebanon security measures on election day take into account risk of violence in each of 26 electoral districts.
Berri: Lebanese will show support for Resistance (The Daily Star Lebanon)
The last weekend ahead of Lebanon’s pivotal elections saw a frenzy of campaigning in the country, with rival parties holding major rallies in various regions. The final stretch ahead of the vote also saw top political leaders preparing for a national dialogue session on Monday to discuss the country’s defense strategy.
Robert Fisk: The mysterious case of the Israeli spy ring, Hizbollah and the Lebanese ballot (Independent)
Spying is as familiar in Beirut as it was in post-war Vienna – there’s even a giant “Third Man”-type ferris wheel here – but the events of the last few days are growing more mysterious by the hour. Over the past two weeks, a special unit of Lebanon’s Internal Security Force (ISF) has been arresting a clutch of Lebanese allegedly working as spies for Israel.
Lebanon charges 4 with collaborating with Israel (Khaleej Times)
BEIRUT — Lebanon charged four people with collaborating with Israel on Saturday, raising to 23 the number of suspected spies who have been charged in the last few months, a court official said.
FOCUS: LEBANON ELECTION (Aljazeera)
It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the discourse about Syria and Syrian-Lebanese relations became simplistic to the point of ridicule, giv en that sweeping statements had been the norm even before the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri, Lebanon’s former prime minister, in February 2005.
Lebanese elections: When faking democracy works (The Daily Star Lebanon)
The Lebanese elections scheduled for June 7 cannot be taken seriously as a democratic expression. Ahem – from a Western perspective, that is. Although party politics are at the core of a functioning democracy, political parties in Lebanon are marginal at best. Almost 100 percent of the electoral lists are controlled or run by city and country zaims (bosses).
