Judge Sir David Baragwanath, who succeeded Antonio Cassese after he stepped down as President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon this month, will not last in his post, an STL judge told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat.

The judge, who refused to be named, said on Sunday that a decision to announce a successor for Cassese won’t last because U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon alone has the right to appoint an STL president.

MPs will seek to put the issue of Hizbullah’s attempt to expand its telecommunications network in Tarshish near the eastern town of Zahle on the agenda of the information committee on Wednesday as the town’s residents have warned they would resort to a sit-in if the authorities do not take any action.

An Nahar daily said Sunday that the lawmakers would try to discuss the controversial issue at the parliamentary information committee meeting that is set to study the media law.

An extraordinary cabinet session on tourism scheduled to be held next Tuesday was postponed over the death of Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, An Nahar newspaper reported.

The daily said Sunday that the decision to postpone the session came after Premier Najib Miqati decided to head to Saudi Arabia to attend the funeral.

The death of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has ended the possibility of persecuting him in Lebanon over his alleged role in the disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Saturday.

Lebanese judicial sources told the daily that Lebanon’s judicial council will follow up on the matter through the necessary diplomatic means and concerned ministries in order to eventually drop the case against Gadhafi.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stated that the Lebanese opposition is nearing its goals, criticizing sides that believe that opposition means occupying downtown Beirut, blocking roads, and stirring unrest.

He told Abu Dhabi’s al-Ittihad newspaper: “The real opposition is what we are doing today through following up on the government’s work and issuing positions on all that is being proposed in Lebanon.”

The Lebanese army has bolstered its presence along the Lebanese-Syrian border in light of recent Syrian army incursions into the country, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Saturday.

Field sources told the daily that the army has also intensified its patrols in those areas.

President Michel Suleiman has halted the decision to promote officers in all security institutions because of the objection over the promotion of the head of the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau Wissam al-Hassan, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.

Prominent March 14 sources told the daily that Suleiman froze the promotions at the behest of Hizbullah and Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun over their opposition to Hassan’s promotion.

The residents of the town of Tarshish in the Zahleh region prevented on Friday members of Hizbullah from expanding the party’s telecommunications network in the area, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.

It explained that party members sought to expand the network as a team from the Telecommunications Ministry was installing fiber optic cables to improve internet services.

Hizbullah on Friday congratulated Libyan revolutionaries on the capture and death of Moammar Gadhafi a day earlier on the outskirts of his hometown Sirte.

"Hizbullah congratulates the people of Libya on turning the page on more than four decades of tyrannical rule," read a statement released by the group.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Friday voiced concerns over a possible Sunni-Alawite civil war in Syria that “might lead to displacing the Christians from the region, like in Iraq.”

At a press conference ahead of talks with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon in New York, al-Rahi added: “We are not with the ruling regimes, we are with the reforms that are essential for the Arab peoples, but we are also with the democratic life.”