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...
party "any additional political gains" seeing its effect on the U.S. aid for Leb’s military, al-joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.
Senior political sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: "The U.S. envoy, who visited Leb for 19 hours, and met with Prime Minister-designate 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 assassination. 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.
and Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, has voiced warnings against giving additional political gains for Hizbullah," suggesting "significant U.S. influence on the CEDRE Support conference for Leb," in response.
They said the envoy’s mission was to deliver a direct message in that regard, discouraging Leb from taking political decisions in Hizbullah’s favor. He warned it could affect the U.S. grants provided for Leb at the CEDRE conference and the U.S. aid for the Lebanese Armed Forces.