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Jumblat Accuses West of Abandoning Lebanon

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Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Druze leader Walid Jumblat accused the West of abandoning Lebanon, saying "dictators" like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be toppled. "The two dictators ought to be overthrown," Jumblat said in an interview with the French daily Le Figaro. Jumblat stressed that Syria and Iran as well as their Lebanese allies "want to create void so they can slowly and steadily impose control over (Lebanon)." He said that "we might not be able to stop that," vowing, however, not to give up. Jumblat also pointed the finger at Hizbullah for the series of car bombing attacks that have hit Lebanon recently. "I accuse Hizbullah directly … when you are capable of possessing rockets with a 300-kilometer range, you own everything," Jumblat told Le Figaro. He also accused Hizbullah of facilitating the job for the Syrian intelligence service. "You cannot have the power to devastate and assassinate without having deep-rooted allies in the territory," Jumblat added. He said Hizbullah "facilitates the work of the Syrian intelligence and desperately defends the Syrian regime as well Iran's expansion policy." Jumblat said in a separate interview with the Russian news agency, Novosti, that it was "impossible for democratic Lebanon to coexist with Syria's dictatorship." Jumblat, who is on a visit to Moscow, renewed charges to Syria with responsibility for differences between the majority and opposition over distribution of power in Lebanon's forthcoming cabinet. Russia "being a superpower that has clear interests in the region has an interest in stability in Lebanon, with which it has deeply-rooted cordial relations," he noted. Jumblat said electing Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman president would be a "major accomplishment." The Progressive Socialist Party leader said he would discuss with officials "the help and support" Moscow could provide to settle the presidential election issue. Electing a president, Jumblat said, is the "base for overcoming internal disputes and regaining national unity." He explained that there are no calls for changing Syria's regime, but the discussion focuses on the ability by Russia and the West to "convince the Syrian leadership to halt its intervention in Lebanon's internal affairs and focus on its own problems." He said the opposition performance "indicates that it aims at making partnership impossible. They often use partnership as a slogan to hide their aims." "They want to change the whole democratic regime of Lebanon," the PSP leader said. "How can we go into partnership with forces that control areas which are off limits for state security?" Jumblat asked in his weekly article published Tuesday by the PSP mouthpiece, al-Anbaa. "How can partnership be achieved with a side that has an arsenal of missiles and a side that lacks such weapons? How can partnership be achieved with forces that adopt a culture of death and preach death?"

 

 

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