Lebanese Druze leader and anti-Syrian MP Walid Jumblatt has accused Syria of âterrorizingâ Arab countries and urged Arab League chief Amr Moussa to intervene with Damascus.
| Ummm... Wally? Has Amr Moussa's intervention ever accomplished anything? Anywhere? |
âAmr Moussa must go to Damascus to stop the murders in Lebanon,â Jumblatt told the private Lebanese satellite channel LBCI on Thursday night, from his home in Mukhtara, southeast of Beirut, where he has been living in fear of his life.
| Right. He'll make Baby Assad sit right up and listen... |
Earlier this month, Moussa went on a fence-mending mission to Beirut and Damascus, in the aftermath of the assassination of press magnate and anti-Syrian MP Gebran Tueni.
| A pity he didn't do that before Tueni was blown to smithereens... |
Many Lebanese blame the murder on Damascus, which has denied any involvement in it or three others that began with the February assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri. Moussaâs âproposal to âstop the political assassinations in exchange for a halt to the media campaignâ (against Syria) means stifling the media,â Jumblatt said. But the Arab League chief denied he was pushing any diplomatic initiative. âI am simply settling for transmitting different points of viewâ between Lebanon and Syria, Moussa told LBCI.
| "I'll continue to dither ineffectually while drawing a substantial salary..." |
Jumblatt charged that Syrian President Bashar Assad controls a variety of âinstruments and terrorist factions capable of scaring Arab regimes. The Syrian regime has chosen to shelter behind Arab initiatives in order to avoid (compliance) with the international probeâ into the Hariri murder, Jumblatt added. âThe terrorist Syrian regime is carrying out political assassinations in order to shut up the (anti-Syrian) parliamentary majorityâ in Lebanon, he added. Jumblatt leads the parliamentary majority along with Saad Hariri, the son of the slain ex-premier, whose killing led to protests and international pressure that forced Syria to end its 29-year military occupation of Lebanon. |