| | DELTA BLOG: Saad and Sitrida Take Akkar by Storm, Aoun Rattles Byblos |
 | | Both Hariri and the General made their announcements from behind bullet-proof glass curtains set up on makeshift podiums in Akkar and Byblos townships, introducing a head-on collision for supremacy in Lebanon's first free-from-Syria parliament. |
 | | Hariri, whose Beirut bandwagon is now rolling fast across the north and the Western Bekaa Valley, is fiercely allied with Samir Geagea's Lebanese Forces, Walid Jumblat's Progressive Socialist Party and all groups banding in the Qornet Shahwan coalition of center-right Christian politicians under Patriarch Sfeir's wing. |
 | | Geagea to a face-to-face reconciliation with the prominent Sunni clerics in Akkar to head off the threat of a fundamentalist Sunni backlash in the June 19 polls against Samir Geagea's wife and the second LF candidate for Besharri seats, Elie Kairouz. |
| licus.org /blog/2005/06/saad-and-sitrida-take-akkar-by-storm.html (440 words) |