Haiti rubble collapses as diggers try retrieve body
Feb 10, 2010 - CNN
 
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Teams of rescuers in Haiti's capital rushed to the city's Caribbean Market on Tuesday after a machine used to clear rubble caused a secondary collapse, trapping at least one Haitian in the rubble.
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Speech of the Founder of the LOG Mr. Ahmad Al-Assaad at the launching ceremony of the LOG student body

May 01, 2009

 

 

Dear LOG students,
Lebanon’s hope for a better future,
Our dream for a brighter tomorrow,
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Speaker: The Founder of the Lebanese Option Gathering M. Ahmad El Assaad during the celebration for the announcement of LOG candidates for the June 2009 elections

 

Habtoor Hotel- Beirut April 05,2009 

 

 Welcome to this meeting where you’ve met the candidates of the Lebanese Option Gathering for the next parliamentary elections, for the South, the Bekaa and Jbeil. In these regions, we will also have alliances with independent candidates, who benefit from a popular and political strength and share our orientations and aspirations. We will announce these alliances soon, in the appropriate moment.
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Ahmad El-Assaad hosts the American ambassador, expresses hope Obama will be a man of peace in the region

Beirut February 18, 2009

The Lebanese Option Gathering founder Ahmad El-Assaad met with the American Ambassador to Lebanon, Michele Sisson, Wednesday. The two discussed the general situation and latest political developments on a local and a regional level, as well as the future of the US policy towards the Middle East under the new administration.

Ahmad El-Assaad
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El-Assaad:

Beirut, Biel January 7, 2009


The Gathering will plunge headfirst into the elections in most areas and there will be surprises

Lebanon will not break its cycles unless there is a change in the political representation of the Shia

 



The Lebanese Option Gathering emphasized during a  commemoration for Ashoura, attended by tens of thousands, that "there will be no resurrection for Lebanon unless all arms are put under state control."


The Shia of Lebanon have nothing to gain by tying themselves to the Iranian regime. Rather, their interest lies aligning themselves with the Lebanese state alone.

There will be no state in Lebanon, not even half a state, unless decisions of war & peace are limited to this state.
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