Tawheed movement leader Wiam Wahhab revealed on Saturday photos of checks addressed to Mustaqbal MP Jamal al-Jarrah signed by Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz, a member of the Saudi royal family.
The check, worth $300,000, was issued in Cairo, he told NBN television.
The head of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad described on Friday the construction violations on public property as “shameful”, saying no one can protect any side that had carried out such illegal activity.
He added: “The current chaos cannot be justified or defended … AMAL and Hizbullah have not provided political cover to the violations.”

A security official revealed to As Safir newspaper on Saturday that the public property construction violations exceed 4,000 plots throughout southern Lebanon, adding that they are far too numerous for the security forces and army to handle.
The newspaper added that the security forces will suffice with recording violations instead of thwarting them.
Full StoryHizb ut-Tahrir’s media official, Ahmed Qasas accused Lebanese authorities of intimidation practices “that have turned Tripoli into a military barracks.”
He told the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in remarks published on Saturday: “They sought such tactics in order to deter the people from taking part in the demonstration that the party called for on Friday in support of the Syrian protests.”

The government is expected to be formed in the upcoming two weeks after Prime Minister-designate Najib Miqati’s return from London from a private visit, reported As Safir newspaper Saturday.
President Michel Suleiman will discuss the cabinet lineup crisis on Sunday with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in a closed-door meeting during his participation in Easter mass in Bkirki, it said.
Full StoryAn MTV crew was assaulted on Friday in the Beirut southern suburb of Ghobeiri while it was filming a construction violation on land owned by the Holy See.
As reporter George Eid and cameraman Roger Hanna were starting to film the site, they were attacked by a number of locals who shouted at them and asked them to stop filming before shooting in the air to terrorize them.

Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected to make a speech in the next two days to address the recent developments in the case of the construction violations on public property, said media reports on Friday.
Al-Liwaa daily reported on Friday that the party is “uncomfortable and worried” about this file being addressed.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea was worried that the LBC television station would fall into the hands of pro-March 8 forces, revealed a leaked U.S. Embassy cable published exclusively in Al-Akhbar newspaper on Friday.
The WikiLeaks cable, dated May 16, 2006, spoke of a meeting between Geagea and then U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Jeffery Feltman during which LBC’s ownership was brought up.

A leaked U.S. Embassy cable, dated November 2008, revealed that MP Butros Harb sought U.S. help in convincing three sides in Lebanon to support the March 14 camp.
The WikiLeaks cable, published exclusively in Al-Akhbar newspaper on Friday, spoke of a meeting between the MP and then U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michele Sison.
Full StoryMP Strida Geagea said that former U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman’s stances are pro-Islamic, according to a leaked U.S. embassy cable published in al-Akhbar newspaper on Friday.
“I wanted to ask him about his feelings” toward Muslims after September 11, Strida stated.
