Hizbullah deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem stated on Wednesday that the Mustaqbal movement and the March 14 camp are experiencing a period of low morale over former Premier Saad Hariri’s presence abroad, their failure in tackling social, economic, and political affairs, and the withdrawal of a number of officials from the camp’s ranks.

He said: “Their failures have forced them to point blame at other sides and this strategy will in turn backfire against them and lead to more losses within their ranks.”

A top U.S. official has said that the Obama administration is adopting a neutral policy towards Premier Najib Miqati because it can’t easily overlook the way he came to power.

The official told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat in Paris, that the U.S. “is adopting neutrality because it knows Miqati since he became prime minister in 2005.”

Saad Hariri’s al-Mustaqbal movement is admonishing Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani for meeting with a delegation from Hizbullah and the Syrian ambassador on the day the international tribunal issued the indictment in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination case, a source said.

The Mustaqbal source told al-Liwaa daily on Friday that the movement’s lawmakers decided to boycott prayers led by Qabbani at al-Amin mosque on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr “to admonish the Mufti for some of his stances.”

Former Premier Saad Hariri held talks with Saudi King Abdullah in Mecca on Tuesday morning to extend his Eid al-Fitr greetings to him, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

SPA said that the two men met at al-Safa palace after attending prayers at the Holy Mosque.

Former prime minister Saad Hariri on Monday extended his greetings to the Syrian people on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, expressing his “full solidarity” with the Syrians in the face of their regime’s violent crackdown on the protest movement.

Hariri also extended Eid al-Fitr greetings to “the Lebanese people in general and the Muslims in particular.”

Saudi King Abdullah held talks with former Lebanese Premier Saad Hariri, the first meeting between the two since the collapse of Hariri’s cabinet in January.

Hariri’s meeting with Abdullah was held at al-Safa Palace in Mecca. The discussion continued over an Iftar banquet thrown by the king, in the presence of a number of senior Saudi officials, the former prime minister’s press office said Tuesday.

Hussein Oneissi, one of the suspects accused by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon of being involved in the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri, was likely the suspect interviewed by TIME Magazine, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

Sources told the daily that the meeting probably took place last Tuesday or Wednesday in the presence of a non-Lebanese Arabic interpreter.

Hizbullah said on Saturday that Al-Mustaqbal movement leader Saad Hariri had rushed with his conclusions on the Time interview with one of the four suspects named in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon indictment.

“Hariri hastened, as his usual habit and the habit of officials (affiliated in his party), to claim the content of the fabricated and false interview in the Time magazine,” a statement issued by Hizbullah’s media department said.

Former Prime Miniser Saad Hariri slammed Hizbullah and the cabinet over the TIME magazine interview with one of the four suspects named in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon indictment.

Hariri’s press office issued a statement on Saturday saying that “Hizbullah considers that the State, its institutions, its government and its security and judiciary forces are only tools to protect Hizbullah… and to cover up their violations and abuses against Lebanon and the Lebanese.”

Former General Jamil al-Sayyed refused to comment on the indictment that was published by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

“This indictment only received dull comments, despite the desperate attempts by al-Mustaqbal movement media to provoke people,” he said on Thursday in a statement published by his press office.