The denial came after official sources told the newspaper that Hizbullah was planning to downsize its members who are fighting alongside Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
's troops against the rebels.
The sources said the party would make such a move away from the media spotlight.
The official sources' remarks came after 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...
said that it was "in the interest of all sides to implement the Baabda Declaration."
He told al-Hayat that the agreement among the rival March 8 and 14 camps to keep Leb at a distance from the region's crises "would be implemented sooner or later."
"We are on the verge of retracting the intervention in Syria," Suleiman said without giving further details.