By Hussein Dakroub, Daily Star (Lebanon,) January 25, 2011

Tires set alight and roads blocked as Hezbollah-backed candidate secures requisite votes

BEIRUT: Public protests, including the blocking of roads with burning tires, erupted across Lebanon Monday hours after former Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the Hezbollah-backed candidate for the premiership, was assured of becoming prime minister-designate.

Mikati’s chances of becoming prime minister soared after Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt backed him with seven of his 11 MPs.....

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US: Hezbollah Dominance in Lebanon Would be 'Problematic'
By David Gollust from the State Department, VOA News, January 24, 2011

The United States warned Monday that a dominate role in the next Lebanese government for the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement would be "problematic" for U.S.-Lebanon relations. Hezbollah has long been on the U.S. State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.....

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Op-ed:Walid Jumblatt: Lebanon's kingmaker
By Lamis Andoni, Al-Jazeera, January 22, 2011

The Druze leader's support for Hezbollah sees him return to his father's legacy of pan-Arabism.

Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's 300,000-strong Druze community, has thrown his weight behind Hezbollah and Syria in the political showdown with the US-backed March 14 alliance that is brewing in Beirut....