October 31, 2007

Lebanonwire

An-Nahar

Hariri after meeting Mubarak: Syria planning to assassinate me with Siniora

Aoun, Hariri to meet in Paris today

Welsh to meet in Paris with Cousseran and Sarkozy's aids

Jumblat warns of army's neutrality in case Grand Serail is attacked

Says there is an American, international, and Arab tendency for the mechanism of electing president by 'half+1'

Washington to freeze accounts of four Lebanese nationals today

Siniora: We are heading to crucial days, must reach agreement

Hariri: The information on the plot to kill me with Siniora is true

Would the plot to kill Hariri & Siniora undermine Moallem-Kouchner meet?

Geagea: The equation is consensus or elections

Fatfat: Hezbollah is plotting for coup and Aoun knows he is out

Ambiguity governs compromise; Bkerki to name candidate after November 12

Hariri: Mubarak informed me that meddling in Lebanon elections is forbidden

Welsh to meet Cousseran today and Muttaki to Beirut in 'search for consensus'

Khoja visits Berri and Siniora; says Saudi Arabia has no candidates

Siniora: Our position is 'respect for Constitution'

Says preparation for Baabda bi-elections is underway

Jumblat calls for toppling Syrian regime, imposing sanctions on it

Expresses support for the American project

Calls for separating Middle East peace tracks

Supports Siniora's stay in office

Says Sfeir not Berri should name president, and the 'choice is ours'

Rejects amending Constitution in favor of Suleiman

Geagea: We refuse naming president by Berri and Hariri

Al-Mustaqbal

Hariri asserts info on Syrian plot to assassinate him with Siniora

Future leader meets Aoun in Paris and Jumblat asks for sanctions against Damascus

Hariri says Mubrak informed him that Lebanon's stability is redline

Says Lebanon consensus won't be based on 'Syrian logic'

Rafic Hariri in a 'virtual message' to the Lebanese - Fares Khashan

Ad-Diyar

No democracy in Lebanon as internationalization takes lead in world capitals

Riad Salameh: Ready for responsibility by consensus

Army commander meets Feltman

MP Hogaspaian: Opposition basing its info on week websites

Ad-Balad

Article 49 does not apply to Central Bank governor

Hariri-Aoun meet in the eye of the storm

Jumblat asks for president from Bkerki and not from Ain el-Tineh

Qaidripartite committee issues recommendations

Dalloul: Patriarch not ready to name anyone

The creeping 'war of trenches' if politics fail - Hadi Sabaa Ayun

Al-Akhbar

Tripartite Maronite committee to choose president

Committee to include General Aoun, Butros Harb and Nassib Lahoud

Committee to choose five candidates outside loyalists and opposition ranks

Names include: Former ambassador Simon Karam, former minister Dimianos Kattar, formr Bar Association chief Shakib Kortbawi, Maronite League president Joseph Torbey, and deputy Farid Elias Khazen

Jumblat attacks army

Gemayel: Presidential elections to the last quarter-hour - Nicholas Nassif

Khoja: President will be elected peacfully

International recognition of Damascus' role and influence in Lebanon facilitates reconciliation - Arafat Hijazi

Geagea: We won't accept opposition candidates for presidency