Lebanese senior figure: Hezbollah can’t be in the new ‘Lebanese’ government

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said that a new “Lebanese government” cannot include representatives of the Shiite group Hezbollah as long as it is directly engaged in the Syrian war.“We want a Lebanese government, and for a government to be Lebanese it cannot include Hezbollah due to its foreign engagements,” Geagea said in an interview with Future TV on Monday.“How could Hezbollah be represented inside the Lebanese government while its forces are fighting in Syria?” He askedThe LF leader also commented on the twin car bombing attacks that targeted the northern city of Tripoli last week, saying that he did not believe that the perpetrators were the same ones who placed the car bomb in Beirut’s Dahieh a week before.“I think the investigations should take [the ex-minister Michel Samaha case] as a reference point.”The Tripoli bombings took place last week killing at least 42 people and wounding over 900The explosions took place outside the Al-Taqwa Mosque in the city’s Al-Zahiriya area and the Al-Salam Mosque in the Al-Mina neighborhood.Also, a car bomb went off on August 15 on the main road between the Al-Roueiss and Bir al-Abed areas of Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold of Dahieh, leaving 27 people dead and at least 200 injured./129