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...
said on Wednesday that if he held talks with 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.
the meeting will be announced and would not be "secret."
"We didn't hold a meeting, why are you making a big fuss out of it?" he wondered in remarks published in al-Liwaa newspaper.
Media reports had said that Hariri could meet with Jumblat during his visit to Gay Paree.
The reports said that Hariri will also hold talks with March 14
Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys...
officials who were converging on the French capital to attend the wedding of former Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh's daughter.
However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
sources close to Hariri denied that he would hold meetings with Lebanese officials in La Belle France.
In remarks to An Nahar daily Sunday, the sources said that Hariri is currently in Riyadh.
Sources close to Jumblat noted to al-Liwaa on Wednesday that the political situation is critical, stressing that the funding of the Special Tribunal for Leb probing the liquidation of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri has created a dispute.
"Hizbullah and its Syrian ally don't want to fund the STL amid fears that they would push PM (Najib) Miqati to resign," the sources said.