Major General Hassan Sabeh (حسن سبع) is a Lebanese

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 politician and was the Interior Minister in the 2005 cabinet of Prime Minister

Prime minister

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 Fouad Siniora

Fouad Siniora

Fuad Siniora is a Lebanese politician, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon, a position he held from 19 July 2005 to May 25, 2008 the date of the election of the new President of Lebanon; he was renominated to the post on 28 May 2008 and held the post as Acting President between those...

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A Sunni Muslim

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 and former Army officer, he was elected on the pro-Hariri

Saad Hariri

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 Future Movement slate in the 2005 parliamentary election

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 and became Minister for the Interior in the new government.

On 5 February 2006 he tendered his resignation to an emergency meeting of the Lebanese cabinet after thousands of protesters torched the building that houses the Danish

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 consulate in Beirut

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 during the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

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After Pierre Amine Gemayel

Pierre Amine Gemayel

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's assassination, Sabeh returned to the government.