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Hannibal Gadhafi’s Lebanese Wife is Still in Libya, Brother Says

Aline Skaff, the Lebanese wife of Hannibal Gadhafi, is still in Libya and hasn’t attempted to flee the strife-torn country, her brother Danny told An Nahar newspaper.

“Aline last visited Beirut on New Year,” Danny Skaff said. “She comes to Lebanon at least twice or three times a year and spends around two months” here.

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March 14 Campaign Against Arms Expected to Push for Quick Cabinet Formation

The March 14 alliance’s campaign against Hizbullah’s arms is expected to push for the quick formation of the new government, An Nahar newspaper reported Thursday.

The daily quoted Speaker Nabih Berri’s advisor MP Ali Hassan Khalil as saying that “the appropriate answer to the slogans launched by the March 14 team is to speed up the government formation process.”

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Aoun after Meeting Sfeir: Arms Won’t Last Forever, Strength Lies in Endurance of Institutions Such as Bkirki

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun stated on Wednesday that weapons possession outside the authority of the state is not “eternal.”

He made his statements after holding talks with outgoing Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir two hours before the Synod of Maronite Bishops’ retreat to elect his successor.

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Israeli Television: Third War with Hizbullah Will Include 230 Villages South of Awali River

Israeli Channel Ten television broadcast preliminary images of what it claimed was a base in Syria where Hizbullah stored its rockets.

The report said: “Hizbullah is arming itself at an unprecedented rate under the misleading cover of calm in the North.”

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Tenenti: UNIFIL Has No Jurisdiction to Demarcate Lebanese-Israeli Maritime Border

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon spokesman Andrea Tenenti stated on Wednesday that the international force supports Lebanon and Israel’s discussion of issues of maritime security.

Commenting on the Lebanese army’s request from UNIFIL to demarcate the Lebanese-Syrian maritime border, he said: “The international force does not have the jurisdiction to demarcate this border.”

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Berri Says March 14 Striving for Power, Not Justice

Speaker Nabih Berri criticized the March 14 forces on Wednesday for lamenting their loss of power in the government, saying their campaign against Hizbullah’s arms contradicted with national principles.

In his weekly meeting with lawmakers at the parliament building, Berri reportedly stressed the need to form the government as soon as possible in order to face future challenges and solve problems such as shortage of water and power rationing.

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March 14 Renews Call for Rally on Sunday: Bristol Meeting to Be Held on Thursday

The March 14 Secretariat General called on Wednesday the supporters of the Cedar Revolution to once again head down to the Martyrs’ Square at 10:00 am on Sunday to reiterate their commitment to state’s right to be the only authority entitled to possess weapons in the country.

It said after its weekly meeting: “You are invited to make a new historic day so that it will pave the way for the future that you aspire to.”

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Sami Gemayel Files Complaint against Raad: He Violated Parliament, Attributing Positions to it that it Didn’t Make

Phalange Party MP Sami Gemayel filed a complaint against the head of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammad Raad over his latest press conference from parliament during which a poster supporting the March 8 camp’s positions was displayed behind him.

The complaint was filed to Speaker Nabih Berri on the basis that the “poster tarnished parliament’s image by attributing positions to it that it did not make.”

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Lebanon Battered by Storm

A snowstorm lashed Lebanon on Wednesday as high winds reached 85 kilometers per hour and heavy rains drenched the Lebanese coast causing bumper-to-bumper traffic in several areas.

The Meteorology Department said the snowfall at 1000 meters could reach 800 meters above sea level on Thursday. Temperatures reached 6 degrees on the coast and below zero on mountain tops.

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Al-Mustaqbal Accuses Aoun of Being a ‘Political Adolescent’

Al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Ammar Houri described Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun as a “political adolescent” who doesn’t know what to say.

“Every time we hoped that Gen. Aoun would reach political maturity, we got surprised that he was still in (the stage) of political adolescence and did not pay attention to what he was saying is most cases,” Houri told An Nahar daily in remarks published Wednesday.

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