Wednesday - January 12, 2011

Lebanon Government Falls

Sorry. This must have been a misstatement from the newscaster. There has not been an assassination, however the government has collapsed. The Lebanese Prime Minister is actually meeting with President Obama right now.

[Updated at 11:13 a.m.] Lebanon’s unity government collapsed Wednesday after Minister of State Adnan Sayyed Hussein turned in his resignation, the 11th Cabinet member to do so.

[Posted at 10:26 a.m.] Members of the powerful Hezbollah movement and its allies resigned from Lebanon’s unity government Wednesday, raising fears of renewed political crisis in the region.

As the Lebanese government faced collapse, Prime Minister Saad Hariri was meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House.

But it does seem to be true that the fragile unity government has been broken by the allied-with-terrorists-ministers quitting. And they quit because of the investigation into the assassination of the previous PM, who was the father of the current PM. So much for unity, and I can see how a TV talking head could get it wrong.

Breaking: Unity Government In Lebanon Collapses
Formerly: Breaking News: the Prime Minister of Lebanon has been assassinated.

This comes on the heels of Hezbollah pulling out of the government in that country, in an attempt to topple the government:

Hizbullah resigns from Lebanese government
By ASSOCIATED PRESS JPOST.COM STAFF
01/12/2011 17:59

Lebanese energy minister told a news conference that 10 ministers are pulling out of gov’t over Hariri tribunal deadlock.

BEIRUT— A Lebanese official says Hizbullah ministers and their allies have resigned from the Cabinet, bringing the government to the brink of collapse.

Lebanese Energy Minister Jibran Bassil told a news conference Wednesday that 10 ministers are pulling out. They need just one more minister to resign in order to force the government to fall and an 11th minister could resign later in the day.

The ministers are stepping down from the 30-member Cabinet over tensions stemming from a UN-backed tribunal investigating the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.

The ministers were planning to resign in the afternoon unless Western-backed Prime Minister Saad Hariri — the son of the slain leader — agrees to their demand to convene an urgent Cabinet meeting over the tribunal crisis, Health Minister Mohammed Jawad Khalifeh said on Hizbullah ‘s Al-Manar TV.

Hizbullah members are expected to be indicted by the Hariri tribunal, which will hand over its findings within “hours or days,” according to a Wednesday report in Lebanese newspaper An Nahar.

Hizbullah has denounced the tribunal as an “Israeli project” and urged Hariri to reject any findings by the court, which has not yet announced any indictments.

Saad’s father, Rafiq Hariri, was assassinated in 2005. He was also prime minister.

More details as this story breaks ...
CAUTION: THIS MAY ONLY BE RUMOR! But it does seem to be the case that the government in Lebanon is falling.

Lebanon’s national unity government has collapsed after Hezbollah ministers and their allies resigned over a U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the assassination of Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The state-run National News Agency announced Wednesday that 11 ministers were stepping down from the 30-member Cabinet headed by Western-backed Saad Hariri, the slain prime minister’s son.

Hezbollah needed the backing of more than a third of the ministers to bring down the government.

SOURCE AT FOX NEWS

Posted by Drew458     on 01/12/2011 at 10:56 AM   
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