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• Lebanon since the March 14, 2005 “Cedar Revolution”, when hundreds of thousands of Lebanese demonstrators took to the streets demanding the withdrawal of all Syrian forces.
• A month earlier, former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri had been assassinated in Beirut, a murder that most Lebanese political forces accuse the Syrian regime of committing
• positive developments came about mostly as a result of coordinated efforts by Lebanese and the international community
• the negative ones seemed to be linked to actions undertaken by Lebanese parties allied with Syria and Iran.
• nternational community’s agenda to support Lebanon’s independence from Syrian rule was not imposed from the outside. Instead, it was an agenda defined by Lebanese themselves.

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