Lebanese Shi'ite politician Hussein al-Husseini, a former parliament speaker who was an architect of the peace agreement ending the 1975-90 civil war, died on Wednesday aged 86.
Husseini, speaker from 1984 to 1992, was central in asserting a larger role for a Shi'ite community that was largely downtrodden at the time, including by helping to establish the Shi'ite Amal Movement in the 1970s alongside Imam Moussa Sadr.
Husseini became Amal leader when Sadr disappeared during a trip to Libya in 1978, never to return. He resigned in 1980 when the leadership passed to Nabih Berri, who has led the movement ever since.
