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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
March 14 Vows to Salvage Lebanon from 'Syria-Hizbullah Cabinet' Dangers
2011-06-16
[An Nahar] The March 14
Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys...
forces vowed on Wednesday to confront alleged attempts by the new Lebanese cabinet to take Leb back to the era of Syrian hegemony and integrate the country's institutions into Hizbullah's statelet.

The general-secretariat of the coalition said after its weekly meeting that it would prevent Premier Najib Miqati's government to "return Leb to the dark stage that the Cedar Revolution liberated" after ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's liquidation in February 2005.

The statement accused the Syrian regime of forming the new cabinet the same way it toppled former Premier Saad Hariri's
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
government via Hizbullah which according to March 14 would control the state and take the Lebanese as hostages.

"The Syrian-Hizbullah cabinet is endangering Leb given that it would implement policies that contradict legitimate international resolutions, either through its rejection to scrap illegitimate arms as called by (Security Council) resolution 1701 or through its coup against the international tribunal," said the statement read by the general-secretariat coordinator Fares Soaid.

In its position as the country's opposition, the alliance vowed to defend the state and its military, security, educational, economic and social institutions against the Hizbullah mini-state.

It also promised its supporters to prevent the country from being part of the Iranian project in the Arab world in the hopes that Leb would join back the Arab Spring that kicked off in Beirut six years ago.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Who has all the guns, and---apparently---all the balls?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-06-16 15:03  

#1  Lebanon is on dangerous ground politically. Everything depends on Syria on Hezbollah.
Posted by: newc   2011-06-16 00:48  

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