Leb First MP Oqab Saqr stressed on Thursday the need to establish an international tribunal to look into the case of Imam Moqtada al-Sadr... not our beloved Tater, but the Lebanese al-Sadr who took a trip from Tripoli to Tripoli and never returned. The Lebs have been blaming Qadaffy for it for years, probably with really good reason...
in light of claims that he was assassinated.
Don't count on finding the body, though. And the guy that bumped him off probably has prostate cancer so he can't be jugged.
The popular revolts in the Arab world will stand as a lesson for Leb that dictatorship and a single governing party will have a worse end than that suffered by Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi and ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Saqr added.
Addressing the government formation process, he told Akhbar al-Yawm news agency that Prime Minister-designate Najib Miqati is seeking to establish a successful Cabinet, but he is being faced by obstacles from the March 8 forces.
... the opposition to the Mar. 14th movement, consisting of Hizbullah and its allies, so-called in commemoration of their Mar. 8th, 2006 demonstration of strength in Beirut ...
"He is a prisoner of these demands, and therefore he won't be able to form a national unity government," he continued.
All the developments that built up to Miqati's appointment are aimed at eliminating the March 14
Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys...
camp and all national values, he stressed.
The March 14 camp is preparing a plan that will include a clear method to lead the country out of its crisis, Saqr said.
In addition, the MP denied that the camp is preparing a massive rally on March 14 in order to improve its negotiation options before Miqati.