Crying out for wholesale security reform
28th Sep 2005, 01:23 GMT
The denouement of the old police state and military regime of President Emile Lahoud is now only a matter of time. Severe international isolation, deficient local endorsement, overwhelming popular discontent, absent Syrian patronage and control, and seemingly sweeping winds of political change in Beirut support such an assessment.
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