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 ...
stressed that the Lebanese government is dominated by Hizbullah and the Syrian regime that were behind the toppling of the cabinet led by former PM 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..
"The President (Michel Suleiman) and the Premier (
Najib Miqati) are the ones who supervise the formation of the government... they had a strong tendency to form a technocrat cabinet... However,death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
the result was the opposite," Geagea told al-Ekhbariya Saudi channel.
He said that when Leb disavowed itself from voting on the U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria and from the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
FMs closing statement proves that this cabinet is controlled by Hizbullah and Syria.
Asked if the Syrian-Lebanese relations forced Leb to take such decisions, Geagea said: "It's true that good relations link Leb with Syria, but aren't the people protesting in the streets (of Syria) also connected to the Lebanese?"
He ruled out that the Lebanese division over the situation in Syria will lead to local disputes, saying: "We can't but respect the people's will" in Syria.
"The crisis in Syria will end after a democratic free regime rises," he remarked.
The LF leader stressed that the March 14
Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys...
-led opposition will escalate its parliamentary opposition to topple the cabinet.
"The government was paralyzed immediately after it began its tasks... The confrontations between the officials (in the cabinet) started and they are now trying to prepare for the Sep. 7 ministerial session," Geagea told al-Ekhbariya.
He stressed that the March 14 camp began its opposition before the Syrian people's uprising, noting that "the developments in Syria will affect the cabinet's term."