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Diary, Lebanese News in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in November 2001.
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A Lebanese student raises a picture November 26, 2001 of a colleague who was beaten and arrested by security policemen during a demonstration in Beirut last August. Around 1000 students at the Amercian University of Beirut held a sit-in on campus, as several universities in Lebanon held strikes to protest a police raid on a university last week. Policemen last week cracked down on students preparing an Independence Day protest against the presence of Syrian army troops in Lebanon. Syria invaded Lebanon in 1976 and still maintains some 30,000 troops there.
Lebanese University students celebrate the upcoming 58th anniversary of Lebanon's independence from France in 1943 November 21, 2001. Around 1,000 mostly Christian students held demonstrations at a Beirut campus to protest against the presence of Syrian army troops in Lebanon on the eve of Thursday's Independence Day festivities. Syria invaded Lebanon in 1976 and still maintains some 30,000 troops there.
Hizbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah speaks in front of a huge poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a ceremony of the Syrian Ba'ath Party of Lebanon held in Beirut November 18, 2001. Nasrallah said "America today denies the resistance it recognised yesterday...it does that for the sake of Israel, and for the sake of Israeli security."
A Lebanese policeman looks at the damage caused by the explosion of a gas cylinder in Beirut, Friday, Nov. 16, 2001, in which five people were injured. The explosion in a basement plumbing store ruined most of the store and shattered windows of cars and nearby buildings. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the explosion occurred when gas leaking from a cylinder ignited.
French President Jaques Chirac (R) walks with Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri (L) outside the Elysee palace in Paris November 10, 2001. Their talks focused on the International situation and on an association agreement negotiated between Lebanon and the European Union.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) congratulates Lebanese Prime Minister
Rafiq Hariri on his birthday, which was on Thursday, giving him a present
during their meeting in Moscow, November 2, 2001. Rafiq Hariri is on a
three-day in Russia and focuses on the US-led campaign against international
terrorism and tensions in the Middle East