A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader
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 ...
defended 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...
against Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
's harsh rhetoric, saying the Lebanese are fed up with the party's practices, which contradict the authorities of the state institutions.
Geagea told al-Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
newspaper published on Monday that Suleiman "said what he had to say last Friday on our behalf."
His remarks "reflect the viewpoint of the majority of the Lebanese who are fed up with Hizbullah's behavior and practices at the strategic, military, security, political and media levels," the LF chief said.
"I salute him," he added.
The tension between Suleiman and Hizbullah reached unprecedented levels over the weekend when the president said Lebanese parties should not hold onto inflexible equations that hinder the adoption of the new government's policy statement.
His remark at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik drew a sharp retort from Hizbullah, which said the president needed "specialized care."
Their dispute lies on the deadlock reached by the members of the committee tasked with drafting the policy statement on whether to include a clause on the resistance in the blueprint.
Geagea reiterated in his interview with al-Mustaqbal that Hizbullah considers the supreme leader of Iran as the head of the Lebanese state.
It believes that "our situation in Leb should be a copycat of Iran," he said about the Shiite party.
"Hizbullah considered the president's move as a rebellion, that's why it had to make the crucial remarks against him," he said.
Hizbullah does not recognize the legitimate Lebanese institutions and seeks to "undermine them when they try to practice their authorities," he added.