CHRONOLOGY-Events in Lebanon since Hariri's killing
Source: Reuters
Dec 7 (Reuters) - Lebanon's presidential election has been delayed for four days to Dec. 11, the parliament speaker said on Friday. Here is a chronology of some of the main events in Lebanon since former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was killed, along with 22 other people, on Feb. 14, 2005. Feb. 28 - Pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar Karami resigns. March 5 - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad tells his parliament Syrian troops will start phased pullout from Lebanon. April 26 - Last Syrian soldiers leave Lebanon. June 2 - Samir Kassir, journalist opposed to Syria's role in Lebanon, is killed in Beirut by a bomb in his car. June 16 - U.N. investigation into Hariri's killing starts. June 19 - Lebanese parliamentary elections end in victory for anti-Syrian alliance led by Hariri's son Saad al-Hariri. June 21 - Former Communist Party leader and critic of Syria George Hawi is killed in Beirut by a bomb in his car. Oct. 20 - U.N. investigators say high-ranking Syrian officials and their Lebanese allies were involved in Hariri's killing, in report to U.N. Security Council. Syria denies it. Dec. 12 - Gebran Tueni, anti-Syrian member of parliament and Lebanese newspaper magnate, is killed by a car bomb near Beirut. July 12, 2006 - Hezbollah captures two Israeli soldiers in cross-border raid, setting off 34-day war in which about 1,200 people in Lebanon are killed. Nov. 11 - Five pro-Syrian Shi'ite Muslim ministers from Hezbollah and its ally, the Amal movement, resign after collapse of all-party talks on giving their camp more say in government. Nov. 21 - Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel is killed by gunmen. U.N. Security Council approves plans for tribunal to try suspects in assassination of Hariri and subsequent attacks. Dec. 1 - Hezbollah, Amal and supporters of Christian leader Michel Aoun camp outside Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's office in central Beirut in open-ended campaign to topple government. Jan. 25, 2007 - Aid conference in Paris pledges more than $7.6 billion to help Lebanon to recover from the war. Feb. 13 - Three people are killed in two bomb blasts near a Christian village northeast of Beirut. Lebanon says in March four Syrians confessed and were members of al Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam group. The group deny involvement. June 13 - Anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido and five other people killed by a car bomb near a Beirut beach club. Sept. 2 - Lebanese troops seize complete control of Nahr al-Bared camp after months of fighting with Fatah al-Islam militants which kills over 420 people, including 168 soldiers, in the worst internal violence since the civil war. Sept. 19 - Car bomb in Beirut kills seven people, including anti-Syrian Christian lawmaker Antoine Ghanem. Sept. 25 - Parliament postpones a presidential election for the first of six times in a bid to break a deadlock over a consensus candidate and end the political crisis. France leads mediation efforts to reach agreement on a presidential candidate. Nov. 23 - Lahoud leaves presidential palace by midnight with no successor elected. Nov. 24 - Siniora says his cabinet is assuming executive powers in the absence of a president. Dec 5 - Speaker Berri says rival Lebanese leaders had agreed on General Michel Suleiman as president even if parliament has yet to elect him. Dec 7 - Berri postpones parliament session to elect Suleiman to Dec. 11 to give more time to rivals to agree on a broad political agreement. (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
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