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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Jumblat Assures He'll 'Never' Visit Damascus
2013-11-06
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat
... 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...
assured on Tuesday that he is not going to Damascus, stressing also that he "is still a centrist."

"I am never going to Damascus," Jumblat said in an interview on LBCI television, denying reports that claimed he was reaching out to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
's regime.

He elaborated: "I am still a centrist amid this division in politics, between religious sects and regarding the war in Syria."

"I want to neutralize Leb from the repercussions of the Syrian crisis and I am trying alongside President Michel Suleiman
...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too...
, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
to fend off the dangers."

Jumblat explained that unlike other political figures that thought the neighboring country's regime would collapse, he "knew it would be a long war."

He detailed: "I gathered my information from (former Syrian army chief of staff Lt. Gen.) Hikmat al-Shihabi and he told me that Syria is heading towards a war."

"The Syrian regime aggravated imprisonments and killings until the revolution turned into a sectarian war."

The PSP leader considered that the Friends of Syria "disappointed" the revolutionaries due to the presence of "different agendas."

"What is required is stopping the smuggling of Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
s into the country, uniting the financing and the military efforts of the Free Syrian Army, and sending a single delegation that represents all factions to attend the Geneva II summit."
Posted by:Fred

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