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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Nearly 500,000 pro-Syrian protesters waved flags and chanted anti-American slogans in a central Beirut square Tuesday, answering a nationwide call by the militant Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group for a demonstration to counter weeks of massive rallies demanding Syrian forces leave Lebanon. Organizers handed out Lebanese flags and directed the men and women to separate sections of Riad Solh Square. Loudspeakers blared militant songs urging resistance to foreign interference. Demonstrators held up pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad and signs saying, "Syria & Lebanon brothers forever." Other placards read: "America is the source of terrorism"; "All our...

Trustees," includes donations from 57 individuals, couples, or other entities. IRS reports reviewed by the Sun show that the foundations at this level have generally given or pledged $1 million or more. The Wasserman Foundation of Los Angeles, founded by movie mogul Lew Wasserman, gave the Clinton library $3 million. The Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust pledged $4 million. The Anheuser-Busch Foundation has given $200,000 annually for the last several years as part of what appears to be a $1 million pledge.The Annenberg Foundation also gave $1 million. The Saudi royal family and the governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and...

This past week America went to the polls to vote for a president. However, we Americans never get to choose our Secretary of State. Now that President Bush has won a mandate for a second term, it's about time he cleaned house -- paying special attention to the cabinet. To say that many of us are upset with his choice of Colin Powell would be an understatement. Mr. Powell is a relic from two administrations back who helped lead the US into allowing Saddam Hussein to remain in tyranny. Add to Mr. Powell's ignoble history his statement to the Arabs...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria has shown a new readiness to work with U.S.-led forces to stop arms, militants and money from crossing into Iraq and fueling insurgency, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday. "I sensed a new attitude from the Syrians," Powell told reporters after talks with the foreign minister of Syria, a nation Washington routinely accuses of supporting terrorism, seeking weapons of mass destruction and dominating Lebanon. "But of course it all depends on actions, not just on attitudes, so we will be working closely with them," Powell added, emerging relatively upbeat from a meeting with...

Dossier: Issam Fares by Ziad K. Abdelnour Three years ago, Beirut's Daily Star wrote that Lebanese businessman Issam Fares had a network of connections with senior American officials that "would make most people blush with envy." Widely credited (or discredited) in Lebanon with convincing the first Bush administration to accept Syria's occupation of Lebanon, Fares also cultivated a reputation in the United States as a valuable interlocutor in negotiations with the late Syrian President Hafez Assad. In reality, however, Fares is less the powerbroker he is often hyped to be than an opportunistic middleman. One by one, to the chagrin...

HOUSTON – One indication of businessman Bill White's confidence he'll be Houston's next mayor -- White said his employer, the WEDGE Investment Group, has already picked his replacement as the company's CEO. But White's opponent is issuing a tough attack by mentioning White's name in the same breath as a Mideast group linked to terrorism. The last days of Houston's campaign for mayor the front-running campaign is under attack. "These are interesting relationships," says mayoral candidate Orlando Sanchez. "We just want to know the answers." Ever since he announced he was running for mayor, Bill White's opponents have quietly raised...

Houston Mayoral Candidate Bill White's record in Azerbaijan is subject to many different interpretations. At worst, White's oil deal with the former Soviet Republic has propped up an inhumane regime that has harbored terrorists, including Al-Qaeda; resulted in drilling on a natural preserve in violation of Azerbaijan's environmental laws; and included as stakeholders Saudi Arabian oil magnates suspected of financing terrorism. At best, the deal has helped improve U.S.Azerbaijan relations, opened up a new source of oil that could decrease U.S. reliance on Middle East crude, and benefited Azerbaijan's economy. Indeed, it seems likely that there have been both positive...

Who is Issam Fares? Posted: December 13, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Have you ever wondered why government officials take certain actions in spite of common sense, U.S. interests, even their own stated policy positions? For instance, I have wondered why the U.S. war on terrorism has focused so little attention on one small country, Lebanon, that hosts more jihadist groups than any other in the world. I have wondered why the U.S. is soft on Syria, one of the most brutal police states in the world and one that sponsors terrorism and continues to occupy Lebanon with...

olitics: The danger of foreign influence-buying through foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation is seen in millions of dollars of donations from Issam Fares, a Lebanese politician and billionaire enemy of Israel. In the case of Hillary Clinton, the adage that the past is prologue is both a truism and a warning of possible things to come. Just as Johnny Chung famously compared the first Clinton White House to a subway turnstile in which you put money to gain access, the Clinton Foundation is looking to be that turnstile on steroids, with dangerous implications for both American and Israeli security....

The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from a former deputy prime minister of Lebanon known for defending Hezbollah, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. Issam Fares, a Lebanese billionaire who has established himself in the United States as a prominent philanthropist, has given between $1 and $5 million in donations to the Clintons’ foundation with donations coming as recently as last year, according to a public donor disclosure list on the foundation’s website.. *SNIP* “It seems the Zionist lobby in the United States and its agents in the region were displeased and worried that...