Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri

Beirut, LEBANON: Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (R) smiles during a meeting with Muslim Shiite Mufti Abdel Amir Qabalan (L), Druze Mufti Naim Hussein (2nd L) and Sunni Muslim Mufti Mohammed Rashid Qabbani (C) in Beirut, 28 November 2006. The three clerics met with Berri as part of efforts to ease the political and religious tension in the country. Lebanon's political divide reached a dangerous deadlock after pro-Western ministers defied their pro-Syrian rivals to take the next step in ratifying an international court into ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's 2005 murder. AFP PHOTO/HASSAN IBRAHIM (Photo credit should read HASSAN IBRAHIM/AFP via Getty Images)