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The new prime minister of Lebanon has been picked by Hezbollah, which is described by the U.S. government as a terror organization, but is denying he has any intentions of following the terror-linked agenda of the organization, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
“My hand is extended to all Lebanese Muslims and Christians, in order to build and not to destroy,” said the Harvard-educated Najib Miqati, a billionaire businessman who today was named to be the new Lebanese prime minister to the outrage of backers of the ousted prime minister Raad Hariri.
“Why these accusations and all this furor ahead of time,” Miqati asked. “Why the prejudgments?”
He rejected the popular sentiment that he was a candidate of the Hezbollah or that his government will be an Iranian proxy.
The selection of Miqati, a Sunni from Tripoli, strongly suggests that Hezbollah chooses to remain more behind the scenes in its direction to the governemtn rather than being in the position of actually running the daily operations.
The reaction from Washington was immediate – a number of officials said that the selection of a prime minister put forward by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah was “problematic.”
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that a government dominated by Hezbollah would mean a major change in relations between the United States and Lebanon.
“A Hezbollah-controlled government would clearly have an impact on our bilateral relationship with Lebanon,” Clinton said.
The United States and Israel regard Hezbollah as a terrorist group, although the militant group’s leaders regard itself more as a resistance group to Israel.
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