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Lebanon's "liberator"?.(governance of Lebabon)
Walid Jumblatt is head of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), a post he inherited from his father Kamal, who was awarded the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize in 1972. Despite the fact that his father was assassinated in 1977 on orders from then--Syrian ruler Hafez al-Assad, Jumblatt became an asset of Damascus, joining the pro-Syrian National Salvation Front in 1983.
Supplied with massive amounts of Soviet weaponry, Jumblatt's forces overran 60 Maronite Christian villages in late 1983, killing more than 1,000 people and leaving an estimated 50,000 homeless. He also displays what Toby Harnden of The Spectator of London calls "a penchant for virulent leftist anti-Americanism." In the past two years alone, Jumblatt has publicly celebrated the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia and the death of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. By any reasonable definition, the 55-year-old Jumblatt would appear to be a radical Arab terrorist in the mold of Yasir Arafat. However, because of a well-publicized ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 20, 2005 700+ words
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- News wire article from: Middle East February 7, 2006 700+ words
...Druze leader Walid Jumblatt charged on Tuesday...Beirut and Damascus. Jumblatt, who heads Lebanon's Progressive Socialist...attempts. Rioting in Lebanon and Syria over the...violent worldwide. Jumblatt explained that he believed...
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- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report February 13, 1984 700+ words
DAMASCUS Walid Jumblatt, head of Lebanon's 400,000 Moslem Druze community...conversation with this magazine, Jumblatt tells why he opposes the Lebanese...September, 1982] on the ground that Lebanon needed a strong government. But...
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- Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Recorder October 25, 2008 700+ words
...and stability in Lebanon. Also Oct 21...leader and MP Walid Jumblatt said after meeting...measure", he said. Jumblatt added that bilateral relations between Lebanon and Syria were negatively...have taken place in Lebanon in recent years...with Hizbullah, Jumblatt said all parties...
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- News wire article from: Xinhua News Agency August 11, 2009 700+ words
Lebanon's Jumblatt to support Hariri's...including his meeting with Jumblatt, and he also resumed...Mohammad Raad on Tuesday, Jumblatt said that "the delay...of my stances," Now Lebanon website reported. Raad...
- LEBANON: JUMBLATT TO ISSUE OFFICIAL STANCE FROM CHRISTIAN STATEMENT SOON.(Brief...
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database May 3, 2001 700+ words
...Socialist Progressive Party MP Walid Jumblatt voiced his backing to the Qornet...Shehwan Meeting and its statement. Jumblatt said such a meting would open the door for dialogue between Lebanon and Syria. Jumblatt added his office would soon issue...
- LEBANON: JUMBLATT RE-LAUNCHES SCATHING ATTACK ON STATE'S SECURITY...
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database January 11, 2001 700+ words
Chouf MP Walid Jumblatt re-launched his scathing...UNESCO Palace in Beirut, Jumblatt also criticized President...balancing ties with Syria. Jumblatt reiterated his stance from...those stances. (Source: Lebanon.com)
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- Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Recorder August 25, 2001 700+ words
Druze leader Walid Jumblatt holds talks with Syrian Pres. Bashar Al Assad on "challenges facing Syria and Lebanon". (Jumblatt, a former ally of Damascus, toured south of Lebanon this month to shore up his alliance with Christians opposed to Syria's political influence).