✍Positions handed to the army, an Arab committee led by Qatar

On 11 May 2008 Beirut calmed and the army took over the areas the opposition had controlled, with the airport road still cut; the Arab League, at an emergency meeting, charged a ministerial committee headed by the Qatari prime minister Hamad bin Jassim and its secretary-general Amr Moussa with mediation, and Gemayel and the 14 March leaders asked for greater American support according to a leaked cable.