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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/international/middleeast/10lebanon.html
Lebanese Assembly Re-elects Pro-Syria Premier
(New York Times) Jad Mouawad - Nine days after Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, was forced to quit under pressure by opponents of Syria's occupation, he was voted back into the post on Wednesday by the Lebanese Parliament. Syria seems now to have regained the initiative, emboldened by a huge pro-Syrian rally in Beirut on Tuesday led by Hizballah.