Daily Star staff
Saturday, March 01, 2008
BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri accused the United States on Friday of being against the recent Arab initiative to end Lebanon’s ongoing crisis. Speaking in an interview broadcast by ANB satellite television late Friday, Berri quoted a senior French official as having told Lebanon’s ambassador to Paris that the US was not in favor of implementing the Arab initiative, which calls for the election of a president, the formation of a unity government and agreement on a new electoral law.
Berri also accused the US of deploying the USS Cole and other warships to the Eastern Mediterranean to support and cover up Israel’s deadly attacks in the Gaza Strip.