However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

Sidwell ( 2005 ) reconstructs the consonant inventory of Proto-Mon – Khmer as follows:

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president ; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1911 – Kay Walsh, English actress ( d. 2005 )

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Benny Bailey, American trumpet player, songwriter, and producer ( Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band ) ( d. 2005 )

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

* 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer, and arranger ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador ( b 1925 )

* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )

* 2005 – Harald Juhnke, German actor ( b. 1929 )

* 2005 – Jack Keller, American songwriter ( b. 1936 )

* 2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14, 000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country ( Syrian occupation of Lebanon ).

On February 21, 2005, tens of thousand Lebanese protestors held a rally at the site of the assassination calling for the withdrawal of Syria's peacekeeping forces and blaming Syria and the pro-Syrian president Lahoud for the murder.

* Opposition accuses Syria of assassination Daily Star, February 15, 2005

Syria was charged by Arab League with disentangling the combatants and restoring calm from the time of the second Lebanese civil war ( which began in 1975 ) until 2005 when the Lebanese revolted against the Syrian presence and caused the withdrawal of Syrian troops with the support of the International community.

* On 22 April 2005 Syria ratified the Agreement on International Railways in the Arab Mashriq, which provides for the implementation of a variety of north-south and east-west links between the states of the region, including the restoration of direct rail links between Syria and Lebanon and Iraq.

In 2005, Russia forgave Syria of three-fourths, or about $ 9. 8 billion, of its $ 13. 4 billion Soviet-era debt.

In 2004 and 2005 Israel and Syria engaged in private talks discussing an outline peace accord.

Del Naja and Marshall performed three shows in 2005 in support of Hoping, an organisation that helps raise money, support projects for Palestinian youth in refugee camps in the occupied territories, Lebanon and Syria.

Its role in Lebanon after Syria left the country in 2005 ( see Cedar Revolution ) is uncertain, and it has been involved in a number of clashes with Lebanese security forces.

Shane Brennan's In the Tracks of the Ten Thousand: A Journey on Foot through Turkey, Syria and Iraq ( London: Robert Hale, 2005 ) is an account of his 2000 journey to re-trace the steps of the Ten Thousand.

The supporters were calling for the invading troops to move out of Iraq, for the US to not attack Iran and Syria, for the UK government to halt reductions in the civil liberties of UK citizens including the right to protest and a free trial ( which they allege would result from the recent Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 and Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 ), and for a reduction in racism in the UK.

Since the end of Syria ’ s occupation of Lebanon in 2005, the Kataeb Party has attracted once again new generations and has regained its role as one of the major political actors in Lebanon.

In November 2005 during a TV interview, Rockefeller stated: " I took a trip ... in January 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq, that that was a predetermined set course that had taken shape shortly after 9 / 11.

On 5 December 2005, the selling rate quoted by the Commercial Bank of Syria was 58. 4 SYP to the US dollar.

* 2005: Massoud Hamid ( Syria ),

" David Duke in Syria: Zionists Occupy Washington, NY and London ", Arutz Sheva, November 29, 2005 ; see clip of David Duke's interview in Syria.

Still, some of the rhetoric used by the LRP in advocating its domestic policies was revived during the Cedar Revolution in 2005, which forced the withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon and led to expectations of political reform.

From this year on, Syria occupied Lebanon until its withdrawal in 2005.

On December 15, 2005, it was officially confirmed that German Bundeskriminalamt federal police officers had on at least one occasion participated in Zammar's interrogation in Syria ; it was claimed that these officers were unaware of the conditions at the prison.

Atassi's biography was published in Syria in 2005 by his grandson.

* Sami Moubayed " Steel & Silk: Men and Women Who Shaped Syria 1900-2000 " ( Cune Press, Seattle, 2005 ).