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Aa Lebanese Forces MP Antoine Zahra said on Friday that Baroud demanded from Rifi to suspend taking any decision to discharge Shakkour from his duties but the former did not comply with the interior minister's demand.

Geagea Says Hizbullah Against Gov't Formation Leader of the anti-Syrian Lebanese Forces (LF) Samir Geagea has said that the Islamist organization Hizbullah "does not want a Lebanese government to be formed," according to a report in the Kuwaiti daily AL SEYASSAH on Friday.

Meanwhile, Lebanese forces and UNIFIL rushed to the scene.

However, Samir Geagea, the Christian leader of the Lebanese Forces party, predicted that the current ruling parliamentary majority would be returned.

The rosaries are an insult to our Christian beliefs," an official with the Christian Lebanese Forces party told AFP on Thursday.

Separately, an intra-Christian reconciliation between the Lebanese Forces (LF) and the Marada Movement remained uncertain as Marada official Youssef Saadeh denied on Oct 21 that a meeting between LF leader Samir Geagea and Marada chief Suleiman Franjieh would be held soon.

Byline: Elias Harfoush While progress was noted in the efforts for reconciliation between Hezbollah and the Future Movement, which if realized would at least help heal the bleeding Sunni-Shiite wound open since the May 7 events in Beirut, the massive ceremony organized by the Lebanese Forces made it even more unlikely for the Christian-Christian, especially the Maronite-Maronite wound to heal.

They say the clash between the anti-Syrian Lebanese Forces and pro-Syrian Marada group took place early Wednesday in the village of Bsarma in the northern district of Koura.