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Written by General Editor
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Nabih Berri
Nabih Berri is speaker of the Lebanese parliament, the highest Shia Muslim position under the Lebanese national pact dating back to 1943, that allocates the presidency to a Maronite and the prime ministership to a Sunni Muslim.
As head of the Amal militia, whose stronghold is in his native southern Lebanon, Berri is seen as little more than a puppet of Syria.
The ascendancy of Hezbollah has eroded his position, but he remains a shrewd political operator and Damascus has continued to keep him at a comparable rank to his more illustrious Shia rival Nasrallah.
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