Michel Aoun...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
, founder of the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
. In 2006, Aoun and Hezbollah created an alliance to diminish the power of Sunni Moslems in the country. Since then, analysts say, Hezbollah has remained aligned with Aoun so as not to be seen as an turban party.
According to Khashan, Hezbollah wants to be on good terms with Aoun but it does not want him becoming president because it wants to push through electoral change that would give Hezbollah more power.
Politically, there are currently two "package deals" in the country. The first is an agreement between Presidential candidate Michel Aoun and ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri
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 assassination. 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.
to support each other.
"Aoun has made it obvious that if he is nominated by Hariri (to be president), he would help enable Hariri to become prime minister. Essentially, you help me become president and I help you become Prime Minister again," Khashan said. "(They are) two men who are desperate for political office."
Hariri, who had campaigned to nominate Marada Movement
the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change...
Chief Suleiman Franjieh as president in 2015, recently returned from a two month jaunt to Europe and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
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