NOWLebanon reports that a delegation representing March 8 parties, traditionally allied to Syria and, in the case of Hizballah, Iran,
...visited UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams’ office on Saturday and delivered a memorandum asking UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to abolish the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL)......The memorandum calls for the UN to replace the STL with a joint Arab-Lebanese commission to investigate the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri...
... the March 8 parties also submitted the same memorandum to the Chinese and Russian embassies in Lebanon.
Absent from the memorandum was the signature of AMAL, the pro-Syrian half of the duopoly currently claiming [political] representation of the Shiite community in Lebanon.
AMAL has staked out increasingly divergent positions from those of Hizballah over the past several weeks and months. This comes as Syria engages in a power struggle with Hizballah over influence in Lebanon. That struggle translated into violence several ago in a fire fight started in the Burj Abi Haidar neighborhood of Beirut.
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AMAL has staked out increasingly divergent positions from those of Hizballah over the past several weeks and months. This comes as Syria engages in a power struggle with Hizballah over influence in Lebanon. That struggle translated into violence several ago in a fire fight started in the Burj Abi Haidar neighborhood of Beirut.
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