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Hopes that Lebanon's new government would encompass all the country's anti-Syrian opposition groupings are in ruins after Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun refused to join the new Cabinet. Speaking in a radio interview yesterday Aoun said: "The door is totally shut in the face of our participation in Cabinet, because we could not agree.

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