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05-12-2006, 11:16


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A massive protest entered its fourth day Monday after a crowd of 100,000 demonstrated within earshot of the government offices in Beirut.
The protestors and speakers addressing the crowd kept on urging the ouster of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and his US-backed government.
One protestor was killed and several wounded after a group of demonstrators were attacked in a predominantly pro-government neighborhood. Security sources said gunmen fired from assault rifles at the group of protesters returning from an opposition rally in the central Qasqas neighborhood of Beirut,
killing the 20-year-old Ahmed Ali Mahmoud.

The man was shot in the back died in hospital and 12 others were wounded. A van carrying protesters was stoned as it drove through Qasqas earlier in the day. Despite the violence, thousands of protesters spent a third night in a newly built tent city in central Beirut outside the main government complex where Siniora was spending his days and nights.

Opposition sources said the shooting would not drive them to abandon plans for toppling the government. Opposition Christian, Shiite and Sunni factions have joined forces in the 24-hour sit-in, which has seen several hundred demonstrators camp out in tents on the government's doorstep at night and flag-waving rallies that swell in number during the day.

The demonstrators, mainly supporters of Hezbollah which gained massive popularity after dealing a surprise blow to the Israeli occupation regime during its July-August invasion of Lebanon, say the government no longer represents the Lebanese people after six ministers resigned last month.

The protestors say their open-ended sit-in is against US influence, contending the US now dominates Lebanon in the interests of the Israeli occupation regime. Siniora and his parliament majority had rejected the opposition's demand for a national unity government.
Addressing the flag-waving protesters in central Beirut, speakers vowed to continue the campaign to remove Siniora from power.

"Our one and only demand is a government of national unity," senior Christian opposition figure and former Interior Minister Suleiman Franjieh told tens of thousands of supporters massed at Beirut's Riad al-Solh square.

"We will stay in this square. We will not leave until this illegal and unconstitutional government goes."
He said the protesters are ready to celebrate Christmas, the New Year and the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in tents in central Beirut to pressure the government into resigning.

Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa arrived in Beirut to meet Lebanese officials, expressing concern over the situation.
Moussa met Siniora and the Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to discuss the situation.

"We all want Lebanon to come out from this crisis and we see that the key to this is national unity and agreement on its elements and its impossible for Lebanon not to come through it," Moussa told reporters.
"The stability of Lebanon and moving towards a solution that would bring about a sure future for the country is one of our concerns," he said.

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Thousands of mourners marched on Tuesday behind the coffin of a young boy killed during mass opposition rallies,

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