Lebanese put pressure on pro-Syrian President

By Robert Fisk in Beirut - 05 March 2006

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article349329.ece

Who will rid us of this troublesome President? That is what most of Lebanon's cabinet and MPs - and Saad Hariri, the son of murdered ex-prime minister Rafiq Hariri - have been asking these past months, for pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud is the last public vestige of Damascus' power in Beirut.

But last week saw an almost Shakespearian attempt to unseat the British-trained former naval officer, one that shocked even the drama-prone Lebanese. It came in the form of Lahoud's own son-in-law, who is the Lebanese minister of defence and who, last July, was subjected to a Hariri-style car bombing that was intended to kill him.

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