Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
leader MP
Michel Aoun...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
stated on Tuesday that another one-way ticket awaits former 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 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.
if he returns to Leb, noting that the Syrian crisis is over.
He said after the Change and Reform bloc's weekly meeting: "He can say whatever he wants. Who asked him not to return? There is another type of one-way ticket if he wants to return to Leb and he knows it."
Addressing the news hounds at his presser, the MP said: "Next Tuesday you will tell me if the crisis in Syria has persisted. I believe that it is over."
On U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's ... sometimes described as
The Heroine of Tuzlaand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Abel P. Upshur...
statements that the U.S. administration is prepared to cooperate with Islamists in Tunisia and whether that poses a threat to Christians, Aoun noted: "Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
chief Samir Geagea
... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ...
spoke of Sunni-Shiite strife and attempts to thwart the Iranian ambitions in the area. The Christians are part of those attempts and the naturalization of Paleostinians will force them to leave the country."
"Is Clinton laughing at us? They oversimplify matters and if they really understood them, they would not have entered Iraq and Afghanistan," he continued.
"The U.S. is incapable of settling the conflict in Afghanistan, Iraq, and
North Korea," he added."Israel will fail after the July 2006 war and once the U.S. launches a war, it fails," he noted.
"What is preventing them from striking a truce in Syria and then igniting the conflict all over again?" Aoun wondered.
Indirectly addressing Hariri, Aoun said: "Whoever is waiting to return to Leb after the collapse of the Syrian regime will have to wait a long time for this to happen."
On the Special Tribunal for Leb, he stated: "I am not a slave for Europe or the United States."
"We will not fund the STL as long as our questions on it to U.N. chief
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
and others remain unanswered," the FPM leader remarked.
Addressing demands for Hizbullah to lay down its arms, the MP said: "Once the army is granted autonomy then they may request the party to lay down its weapons, not the other way around."