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Monday, January 1, 2007
Volume:
23
Issue:
1
Abstract:
On November 25, 2006, Lebanon’s cabinet, defying warnings from Hezbollah, approved a U.N. plan to establish an international tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.1 On November 13, 2006, the Lebanese Cabinet had unanimously approved an earlier U.N. plan to create an international tribunal.2
1 Anthony Shadid, Crisis in Lebanon Reaches New Threshold, Wash. Post, Nov. 26, 2006, at A19, col. 1.
2 Megan K. Stack, Lebanon Approves U.N. Tribunal Plan, Wash. Post, Nov. 14, 2006, at A28, col. 5.