Walid WallyJumblat
... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
received a verbal message from Syrian
President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
informing him that Damascus
...The
City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
has decided to freeze relations with the MP for the time being, al-Liwaa newspaper reported.
Careful starting your car, Wally. And don't drive down any streets that look like they've been recently "repaired."
Last week, Assad criticized Jumblat's statements in which he advised former Prime Minister Saad Hariri
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
to follow his example and refrain from getting involved in developments in Syria, informed sources told the daily.
They noted that Damascus informed the Druze leader that it doesn't need "advice not from friends and allies, we know what we should do" regarding the crisis.
More than 2,600 people have been killed in Syria since massive pro-democracy protests erupted across the country in mid-March, according to the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
Assad's media adviser Bouthaina Shaaban said that 1,400 people, including 700 army and security officials, have been killed in the violence.