Informed US reporters in State Department press briefing

"QUESTION: The name of Mr. Rashid Karami has been thrown in there as an alternative person, a Sunni person, to preside a new government in Lebanon. Would the United States be willing to support such a government?"  Of cousre, Mr. Rashid Karami can't serve as prime minister because he is dead (assassinated by Samir Ja`ja` (Ga`ga`)--the latter being a member of the democracy and freedom faction that the US supports).