Michel Suleiman

** FILE ** Army commander, Gen. Michel Suleiman salutes during a ceremony in the Christian town of Jounieh, Lebanon in this Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007 file photo. The largest bloc in Lebanon’s deadlocked parliament has dropped its opposition to the army chief becoming the next president, bringing Gen. Michel Suleiman one step closer to being the new head of state and ending Lebanon’s year-long political crisis, a lawmaker said Wednesday Nov. 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)