[An Nahar] Speaker Nabih KnobbyBerri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
has snapped back at the March 14 alliance without naming it, saying the new government would not be formed without Hizbullah's participation in it.
In remarks to al-Joumhouria newspaper published Friday, Berri said it was impossible to form the government without having Hizbullah representatives in it.
The speaker's remarks were an indirect response to calls by some officials in the March 14 alliance to keep the party away from the cabinet line-up.
Al-Joumhouria said that Berri also "mocked" remarks made by March 14 politicians on his announcement that the March 8 coalition of Hizbullah, his Amal movement and the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
, no longer existed.
Officials, who visited Berri on Thursday, told the newspaper that the speaker held onto his stance of the end of the alliance on "domestic issues."
The speaker told several local dailies this week that he agreed with FPM chief
Michel Aoun...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
on strategic issues such as the resistance but not on local affairs.