A high-ranking Syrian security official condemned on Friday Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid WallyJumblat's
... 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...
recent calls to introduce "radical change" in the Syrian regime, saying that the Druze leader has once again allied himself with former Premier 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.
and Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
chief
Samir Geagea... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ...
, reported the Kuwaiti Al-Seyassah newspaper on Friday.
The official said before a Lebanese Druze delegation: "When the time comes for settling scores, Jumblat will be dealt with in the same manner as Hariri and Geagea, as well as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffery Feltman."
He noted that Damascus
...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
has so far avoided creating any security problems with Jumblat, especially in his stronghold of Mount Leb.
The Syrian official warned however that this calm will not last much longer.
Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony...
sources monitoring the Syrian crisis told the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat in remarks published on Saturday that the March 14
Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys...
-led opposition "would be wrong to believe that Jumblat is paving the way to returning to his former allies."
"The MP has his own specific position on the developments in Syria," they said.
"He is seeking to keep Leb away from the crisis because getting involved in it will only create more sectarian tensions," they added.
"Jumblat is not seeking to part ways with the government because he has not alternative to turn to," they explained.
The majority of Syria's Lebanese allies, starting with Hizbullah, were not pleased with his latest position on Syria, they said.
Hizbullah however is seeking to maintain the calm in Leb at the time being, they stated.
Furthermore, the sources noted that the MP's support for the resumption of the national dialogue does not stem from the need to reach an agreement on a defense strategy for Leb, but from a need to keep the country away from the Syrian crisis.
Jumblat had stated on Tuesday that history has proven that popular movements cannot slow down, but they only gain momentum.
He said citing late Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel: "If only Russia and Iran would consider the 'power of the powerless' in their approach towards the Syrian crisis."
"They should admit that the situation cannot be resolved through security measures, but by introducing a radical change to the ruling regime," he stressed in a statement on the Syrian crisis and Russia and Iran's ongoing support for the ruling Syrian regime.