Jumblat Reportedly Admitted to Conspiring with Syria, Iran Against Hariri
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Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has admitted that he conspired with Syria and Iran against a Qatari-Turkish initiative, forcing the collapse of ex-Premier Saad Hariri’s government in early 2011, media reports said Tuesday.
“I carried out the coup along with Premier (Najib) Miqati,” Jumblat told 16 leaders meeting at Baabda palace under President Michel Suleiman at the national dialogue session. “We conspired with Syria and Iran against the Qatari-Turkish initiative.”
“I don’t regret the coup because it was aimed at averting strife,” newspapers that hit the newsstands on Tuesday quoted him as saying.
The PSP chief reiterated that he is a centrist and advised both the opposition and the majority to end their support for two rival neighborhoods in the northern city of Tripoli.
“I am neither with March 14 nor with March 8 and both teams should stop funding and arming Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen to avert sedition,” Jumblat said.
Majority Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh residents and mostly Alawite Jabal Mohsen have engaged in gunfights that left several people dead. The clashes were seen as a spillover of the Syrian crisis to Lebanon.
On Hizbullah’s weapons, Jumblat rejected linking them to the Arab-Israeli conflict and putting them in defense of Iran.
“We have previously agreed during the dialogue that was led by Speaker Nabih Berri in 2006 to put the arms in defense of Lebanon,” he stressed.
In remarks to An Nahar daily published Tuesday, Jumblat said the national dialogue session was “very good.”
He hailed Suleiman on his suggestions but lamented that some officials continue to hold onto the past.
“We should find solutions to several problems that force us to adopt a policy of keeping Lebanon at a distance” from the Syrian crisis, he said, adding “what’s happening in Tripoli and the North is a very dangerous alarm bell.”
Northern Lebanon has also been shaken by tit-for-tat sectarian abductions raising more fears that the unrest in Syria would expand Tripoli’s instability to other areas.
12 June 2012, 09:04
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Is this the only reasonable and honest man we have left in Lebanese politics?! I am not a Druze, nor a member of his party, but am always happy to here this man speak. I hope the rest of Lebanon heeds his wisdom. His words are appropriate and more so are a blessing at this appropriate time.
Walid for president!!!!!! :-)
12 June 2012, 09:10
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and the "strife" of all the assassinations, car bombs in the christian area's, tent city downtown, may 7, closed parliament, hezbolah's weapons and wars and threats..... that was now ok to accept? appeasing the march 8 beast will come back to bite you and lebanon sometime mr jumblatt. you are either part of the problem or solution.... and you became the problem! you are not a centrist just an ethno and ego centrist.
12 June 2012, 11:46
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So... you would rather sell your soul to the devil (I am not talking about 1 particular camp here), than fight for your convictions...
Pathetic...but in that case, you have chosen a camp de facto. You see walid, there can be no conflict between m8 and m14... the later are not armed...now if want to call the few partisans that have a kalash in their cupboard fighters, then sure...but only hezb has trained, equipped, organized fighters with logistics, telecom, sophisticated weapons etc...what will a few lightly armed partisans of the other side do? This is ridiculous; we saw what happened in 2008. Bottom line, avoiding strife is not an excuse, you need 2 sides to make the war, or 1 armed side to take over power through a coup, and this will happen sooner or later I'm afraid...
12 June 2012, 12:13
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i remember some M8 sheep followers here saying that this gvt came democratically! that there was no coup only in M14 dreams! hahaha!
we see democracy the M8 way...allying with syria and iran to take over the power... no comment
12 June 2012, 17:51
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then you are denying what joublatt says!
waw you know better than him! bravo Mr Teacher! you see how ridiculous you are by denying even what s in front of your nose!!!!
12 June 2012, 17:52
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“I carried out the coup along with Premier (Najib) Miqati,” Jumblat told 16 leaders meeting at Baabda palace under President Michel Suleiman at the national dialogue session. “We conspired with Syria and Iran against the Qatari-Turkish initiative.”
SO THAT YOY CAN READ IT BETTER Mr teacher!!!
12 June 2012, 21:26
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"only a democratic, peaceful one"
you are always playing on words thinking that like that you d appear smarter... but a "coup" as you say is the opposite of the word democratic... ya azghar!
12 June 2012, 12:51
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How about you conspire against Iran and Syria this time and bring this government down? ...well in order to avoid civil strife that is.
12 June 2012, 15:22
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At last, Wally proved to be mentally unstable. Basically, He wants us to thank him for what He did. ha ha ha, better than Aoun's Tuesday buffooneries for once.
12 June 2012, 20:38
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a great politician and a decent man- wish my buddy Aoun could learn some manners from leaders like you. Having said this, there is no denying that you have taken the worst of insults and has been extremely patient- not because you are afraid of them but to spare the people of lebanon violence and destruction. You have been preaching nonviolence for a while and that is what the people of lebanon need the most. If anything, this is a sign of true leadership.
