President Michel Suleiman...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too...
on Thursday noted that Syria was not seeking to stir chaos in Leb, stressing that the weapons of non-state actors will be eventually removed, "whether they belong to Hizbullah or the Salafist forces."
"Syria does not have the objective of stirring chaos in Leb as it is barely being able to tackle its own problems at the moment, and we have to prevent a spillover of the Syrian crisis into Leb through endorsing the stance of neutrality that was taken by the national dialogue commission," Suleiman said during a meeting with Argentinean news hounds in Buenos Aires.
The president has said that Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
must contact him to clarify the charges against Syrian officials in the case of ex-Minister Michel Samaha.
Leb's Military Court has charged Samaha and Syrian security Chief Maj. Gen. Ali Mamlouk with forming a group to commit terrorist crimes in Leb.
Suleiman told the Argentinean news hounds that the approach towards the Syrian crisis was based on "preventing Leb from becoming a launchpad for operations against Syria or for training and military bases linked to the Syrian conflict."