Updated at: 0258 PST, Tuesday, September 15, 2009 NEW YORK: Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have raided homes in the New York City borough of Queens in connection with a counterterrorism investigation, US police said on Monday. Congressional sources confirmed lawmakers in Washington were to receive a full briefing on the raid late Monday afternoon. "The operation was in Queens. There were some raids in some residences there," Martin Speechlay, a spokesman for New York City police, told media. "It was a federal operation, we were assisting them." In Washington, a Senate aide told media that lawmakers were being briefed on the raid."Apparently the Homeland Security Committee is getting briefed today at 5:00 pm (2100 GMT)," the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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