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The News From 2002


January 16, 2002
Toufik Hindi Returns to Jail After Mother's Funeral

January 24, 2002
Elie Hobeika Assassinated

February 12, 2002
Geagea to Leave Yarze Cell to Military Hospital

February 14, 2002

Geagea Taken Back to Yarze Cell from Military Hospital

March 01, 2002
Church Bombing Anniversary Used To Pray For Geagea

March 23, 2002

Students Take to Streets for Geagea and Father Abou

March 24, 2002
Lebanese Forces: 'Military Boots Smash Temple of Justice Daily'

March 26, 2002
Hindi 3 Years, Younis 3 Years, Bassil 4 Years

May 13, 2002
Uproar Over Police Failure to Locate Missing LF Engineer
LF's Ramzi Irani Disappears Mysteriously in Beirut

May 19, 2002
LF Stages Campus Protests over Irani's Disappearance

May 20, 2002
Four Scenarios on Missing Engineer Irani's Captors

May 27, 2002
Irani, Martyr of Freedom, Given Emotional LF Sendoff

May 28, 2002
Irani's Abduction Eyewitness Turns Out a Bounty Hunter

June 4, 2002
Gabriel Murr Confirmed By-Elections Winner by his Nephew

June 5, 2002

It’s all over but the crying: Gabriel Murr wins Metn
Court begins new trial of alleged collaborators

June 6, 2002

Gebran Tueni: 'Metn Requires Modest Victor, Proud Vanquished'
Michel Murr supporters run riot after defeat
Gabriel Murr urges end to tensions

June 7, 2002
Minister Murr Threatens to Quit, Says Hariri Overturned Metn Vote
Aoun Returning on Private Jet
Battle of Metn threatens to break out anew

June 8, 2002
Metn By-Election Plunges Lebanon Into Full-Blown Crisis

June 10, 2002
Gabriel Murr Formally Proclaimed Metn By-Elections Winner

June 11, 2002
Opposition Vows to Oust Minister Murr, Flirts with Gen. Aoun

June 12, 2002
Opposition presses for Elias Murr’s ouster

June 15, 2002
Archbishop Haddad Beaten Up by Christian Fanatic
Hizbullah Joins Nation-Wide Protests Over Haddad's Beating

June 21, 2002
War Mood Grips Mideast as Syria, Israel Alert Armies

June 22, 2002
FBI Rules Lebanese Tip of Las Vegas Terror "Not Credible"

July 5, 2002
Aoun Sues Hrawi for $75 Million in Libel Damage

July 8, 2002
LF Outlines Policy Guidelines in First Downtown Rally

July 9, 2002
Myrna's Challenge of Uncle May Turn Loser Mokheiber to a Winner

July 10, 2002
Phalange Party to Expel Ex-President GeMayel

July 11, 2002
Gen. Aoun's Top Coordinator Acquitted by Military Court

July 12, 2002
Suspected Hobeika Assassin Kills 3 Lebanese Troops in Sidon
Court of Appeals Lowers Hindi's Prison Term to 15 Months

July 15, 2002
Army Rushes Commando Reinforcements to Ein el-Hilweh

July 17, 2002
Solange GeMayel Blasts Pakradouni as 'Forcefully Imposed Leader'

July 18, 2002
Tueni Abhors HandOver of Lebanese Fugitive by Palestinian Outlaw

July 23, 2002
Assad Pledges Inquiry into 174 Missing Lebanese

July 26, 2002
Lebanese Forces Party slams arrest of two members

July 27, 2002
2 Held by Authorities in Connection with Jibreel's Assassination

July 29, 2002
GeMayel Forms Breakaway 'Katayeb Reformist Movement'
LF Reports New Wave of Arrests by Military Intelligence

July 31, 2002
Shooting Bloodbath at Lebanon's Education Ministry

August 1, 2002
Killer Admits Willful Murder, a Ticket to the Gallows

August 8, 2002
Palestinian Fanatics Threaten to Turn Lebanon into 'Pool of Blood'

August 9, 2002
Government on Collision Course with Lebanon's Free Media

August 10, 2002
MTV, LBCI Confront Government Attempts to Muzzle Media

August 12, 2002
Ex-President GeMayel Escapes Assassination

August 13, 2002
Loads of photos on the palestinian refugee camp clashes now online
Palestinian refugee camp hit by clashes

August 14, 2002
Aounists Contest 2004 Elections, Support Syria Accountability Act

August 15, 2002
Dinniyeh Rebels To Disarm, Go to House Arrest Pending Deportation

August 26, 2002
U.S. Plane Ejects Palestinian Deportee at Beirut Airport

September 02, 2002
Ehden Massacre's Last LF Detainee is Freed

September 04, 2002
MTV Closed at Court Order, Putting Lebanon's Media Freedom in Peril
Violence erupts in Lebanese camp

September 06, 2002
Politicians slam MTV closure
Lebanese media fight TV station closure

September 07, 2002
Freedom Battle Flares into Lahoud-Opposition Open Collision

September 08, 2002
Police Stun MTV Protestors With Water Hoses, Scare Downtown Cafes

September 09, 2002
Demonstrators say ISF troopers beat them

September 10, 2002
Meeting descends into Chaos as rivals trade insults, blows

September 11, 2002
Lahoud finally weighs in on MTV debacle

September 16, 2002
Mass for LF’s dead draws security

September 18, 2002
How a Rogue Regime Turned Lebanon Into Its Hostage
Judicial Bombshell Imperils Gabriel Murr's Political Future

September 19, 2002
Bush team opposes sanctions on Syria
Mr.Ferzli and Gen.Aoun in Al Jazira
Congressmen Heap Abuse on Syria
Berri in No Hurry to Decide Gabriel Murr's Political Future

September 22, 2002
Murr's Asset Declaration Found, But Is MTV Baron Off the Hook?

September 23, 2002
Car-Bomb Shakes Jounieh, Wrecks 3 Vehicles

September 24, 2002
Bomb explodes near McDonald’s *latest*
Aoun Equates Syria to Nazi Germany

September 25, 2002
Lahoud Regime Bracing for Bone-Crushing Showdown with Aoun
 Aoun Decries Lebanon's Transformation into 'Ugly Photocopy of Syria'

September 26, 2002
Addoum: Gen. Aoun Is not Above the Law, Touma May Be Prosecuted
Patriarch Disclaims Aoun's Support of U.S. Sanctions Against Syria

September 27, 2002
Why Was the Puma Deal a Scandal
Al Waleed Buys MTV
Puma Scandal Resurrected to Persecute Ex-President GeMayel

October 10, 2002
Beirut's Key to Gen. Kenaan Prompts Sharp Pierre Sadek Caricature
Ghazi Kenaan Transferred to New Post in Syria

October 11, 2002
Amin GeMayel files lawsuit against Phalange Party leader

October 12, 2002
Troops, Riot Police Ring Justice Palace for MTV Court Hearings

October 13, 2002
MTV to Re-operate or Remain Shut Oct. 21

October 15, 2002
Opposition to ease criticism in MTV case

October 16, 2002
Lebanese students protesting Syria's grip detained

October 17, 2002
Students beaten by Police.. AGAIN!

October 18, 2002
Killer confesses sectarian motive in shooting spree

October 21, 2002
MTV CLOSED... FOREVER

October 23, 2002
MTV: Opposition Seeks Cabinet Ouster

October 27, 2002
Engineer Found Dead Two Weeks After Disappearance

October 29, 2002
Toufic Hindi Leaves Jail Nov. 9

October 31, 2002
NDU Strike Photos

November 3, 2002
Syria Rebukes Relatives Looking for Missing Loved Ones

November 4, 2002
Gabriel Murr Out, Mokheiber in

November 6, 2002
Maronite Church Blasts Regime's "Crooked Ways"

November 7, 2002
Gen. Aoun Calls For Civil Disobedience Revolt

November 8, 2002
Lebanese Forces members arrested for 'inciting civil strife' in south

November 9, 2002
Hindi's Nightmare Over for New Beginning Without Grudges

November 11, 2002
Freed Hindi says he has ‘no regrets’

November 12, 2002
Eliano Mir Released
Small Bombs Explode Outside Three American FastFood Restaurants

November 13, 2002
Eliano Mir Arrested Again??

November 14, 2002
MTV Folds, Giving Up on Judicial Justice

November 15, 2002
Lebanese Forces win NDU Elections
Lebanese Forces Win at the USJ Elections

November 18, 2002
Eliano Mir Moved to Nabatiyeh Prison

November 19, 2002
Authorities to Prosecute Ex-President GeMayel, Gen. Aoun?
Eliano Mir Released from Prison for the Second Time

November 20, 2002
Addoum Adds Chamoun, Abu Arz to Prosecution Mill
Journalist Younis Released

November 21, 2002
Lebanese police block anti-Syrian protest and arrest students
American shot dead in south lebanon

November 26, 2002
Ex-MTV employees face long, harsh winter

November 27, 2002
Who said the era of militia’s has long vanished?

December 3, 2002

Exclusive Interview with Eliano Mir

December 4 , 2002
SLCHI waits out MTV saga

December 11, 2002
U.S. to Americans, stay away from Lebanon!
Government shuts 8 downtown nightspots

December 12, 2002
MTV verdict set for late December
Authorities close 8 bars in downtown Beirut

December 13, 2002
Balamand university elections

December 17, 2002
Downtown bar crisis resolved

December 18, 2002
Downtown bars closed once again

December 20, 2002
LF man arrested for possession of ‘coded papers’

December 23, 2002
Beirut Judge Shot at His Justice Palace Chambers

December 26, 2002
Eliano Mir arrested... again!

December 27, 2002
Court of appeals keeps MTV closed

December 28, 2002
Lebanese Forces member shot dead

December 30, 2002
Sfeir: Syrians have been here too long




 

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