Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 51

19-December-2005

Political Comment (19 December 2005)

Lebanons anti-Syrian governing coalition has lost little time in blaming the assassination of Gibran Tueni on Damascus and seeking greater UN involvement in investigating various terrorist attacks during the last year. In reply, the UN has extended and ambiguously expanded the mandate of the commission investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri. In the occupied...