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Jumblatt deserts Lebanons pro-Western camp, signs pact with pro-Iranian Hizballah
DEBKAfiles Middle East sources disclose that over last weekend, Jumblatt quietly signed a defense cooperation pact with Hassan Nasrallah, affording Hizballah a strong foothold in the Lebanese Druze bastion of Mt. Chouf. Drawing the hostile noose around northern Israel ever tighter, Lebanese president Michel Sleiman was due in Damascus Wednesday, Aug. 13, to celebrate the thaw in relations between the two countries. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-08-14 |
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