Hezbollah Is Plotting A Coup

Word coming from Washington suggests that Jordan King Abdullah II shared with American officials his fear of a Hezbollah coup plot against the Lebanese government next July.

Republican Representative Mark Kirk was quoted to have said that he heard from Jordan king that he is worried that Hezbollah might be plotting a coup against Lebanon’s government next July. Kirk’s statement came during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hearing before a House appropriations subcommittee Thursday, Hicham Melhem, Annahar bureau chief reported.

In fact, several Hezbollah members warned that any government in Lebanon must reflect “true participation” of Lebanon’s various communities and political entities to avoid struggle. Nawaf Almoussawi, a Hezbollah candidate in the Lebanese parliamentary elections in June, threatened to take the confrontation into the streets, if March 14 won the elections and decided not to grant his party veto power within the cabinet.

Hezbollah demands to have “one third + 1” of any government to be formed after the elections, if it happened to loose the race.

In another dimension, Abdullah’s leaked statement underscores Arab Leaders anxiety with Hezbollah’s growing influence in the region supported by Iran.

President Hosni Mubarak warned yesterday "regional forces" against interfering with Egypt, pointing indirectly at Iran. Mubarak, whose country was the first in the Arab World to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, has been under regular attack from Tehran and its proxies in the region (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and other leftist/nationalist dinosaurs) for its so called self defeating appeasement.
Accordingly, Mubarak chose the anniversary of "the liberation of the Sinai" from Israeli occupation to address his foes.

"We are aware of your plans... We will expose your plot and catch you," the Egyptian president promised. "Stop [exploiting] the Palestinian issue and be warned of Egypt's fury."

His statement is the first since Egyptian security forces uncovered a Hezbollah cell allegedly planning to carry out attacks against Israeli and domestic targets in Egypt, several weeks ago.