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  Updated: May 16, 2008

Lebanon … Hezbollah lifts street blockades

By: Karim Tellawi

BEIRUT, Lebanon: Lebanese Hezbollah started removing street blockades on Thursday a day after the reversal of two Lebanon Cabinet decisions made during the country’s worst violence after the 1975-90 civil war.

Lebanese political crisis boiled to deadly clashes on May 7 after the cabinet decided to cease the private communication network of Hezbollah and remove the country's sole international airport's security chief Gen. Wafik Shqaier for alleged links to Hezbollah.

Led by Hasan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah had promised to move toward political solidarity after the Cabinet's announcement.

On Lebanese television, Hezbollah's deputy secretary-general Sheik Naim Qassem said Thursday: "Beirut is for all. It is not for a party over another and it is not for one group over another.".

"We call everyone to move away from the language of turmoil and apprehension because at this stage, we need to be together."

A special meeting between Lebanon's political factions -- organized by the Arab League -- was scheduled for Friday to discuss political issues that have kept Lebanon without a president since November.

The Cabinet on Wednesday reversed the order that Hezbollah's telecommunications system should come under state control.

A similar U-turn was made with a decision to fire the chief of security at Beirut's airport. He was at the center of a probe into allegations Hezbollah had installed its own cameras and equipment at the airport to monitor the movement of government figures.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah defended his group's use of the monitoring equipment, saying it is the right of "any militia during war."

Meanwhile, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has criticized Majority leader legislator Saad Hariri for "preaching the Sunni-Shiite discord in Beirut instead of rejecting such a discord."


 
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