Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
The Lebanese website Now Lebanon reported that this evening a meeting is expected between senior Hizbullah officials and senior officials from the Progressive Socialist party, which is headed by Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. The meeting is to take ... September 15, 2008, 4:49 pm
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, who is identified with the March 14 Forces, has announced that he and chairman Talal Arsalan of the opposition Lebanese Democratic Party had decided to form a political alliance. Source: Al-Mustaqbal, Lebanon, ... September 12, 2008, 2:34 pm
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
In an interview with the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt attacked his allies in the March 14 Forces, stating that their position was not unified. He said that instead of dismantling Hizbullah, a dialogue should be ... September 11, 2008, 10:57 am
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Beirut- Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt warned that breaking out of a Sunni-Shiite conflict would provide Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime with a "pretext to intervene in Lebanon."
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
By Tom Perry Beirut - Sectarian violence in north Lebanon could provide Syria with a new pretext to intervene in its neighbor, anti-Syrian Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said on Thursday.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Source: Reuters By Tom Perry BEIRUT, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Sectarian violence in north Lebanon could provide Syria with a new pretext to intervene in its neighbour, anti-Syrian Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said on ...
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Syria plays hardball with the Saudis (Sami Moubayed, 10/07/08, Asia Times) One of the first to realize that the Syrians are overpowering the Saudis in Lebanon was Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, a strongman of the March 14 Coalition. He realized that the US-imposed isolation of Syria has crumbled, after Bashar Al Assad's visit to Paris in July 2008. The Turks and the Qataris are firmly...
Israelated (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Tariq AlhomayedAsharq Alawsat To see Saad al Hariri, Michel Aoun, Walid Jumblatt and Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah embrace one another in front of the cameras wouldn’t be a great achievement in comparison to the importance that lies in whether they would be able to work [together] to build a state. Optimism is one thing and reality is another, especially if we look at what unites and what divides...
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
... region, and wondered whether the deed was the fulfillment of the wish of Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt to send a car bomb into Damascus, in the context of Israeli-Saudi cooperation. The London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat wrote that the target of the attack was the Syrian intelligence facility. An eyewitness reported that a Syrian brigadier-general was killed by the explosions....
Al Ahram Weekly (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
... Talal Arslan but had played a key role in reconciliation between Arslan and rival Druze chieftain Walid Jumblatt after clashes spread in May. He was the first pro- Syrian politician to fall prey to a chain of assassinations that have shaken Lebanon since October 2004. Some blamed Israel. Jumblatt darkly alluded to "foreign intelligence apparatuses and all kinds of projects"....
Lebanese Political Journal (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Hezbollah-led March 8 alliance spokespeople suggest that forces opposed to them assassinated Druze March 8 member Saleh Aridi. They argue that Druze leader Walid Jumblatt is moving away from his anti-Hezbollah allies, and is thus being sent a message not to ally with Hezbollah. It is suggested - and sometimes openly claimed - that the Saudi-backed March 14 coalition is responsible for...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Separate reconciliation talks have already been held between representatives of pro-Syrian Hezbollah and the pro-Western Druze Progressive Socialist party led by Walid Jumblatt.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Published remarks by Druze leader Walid Jumblatt disparaging Sunni leader Saad Hariri are seen as a sign that he may break from the Western-backed alliance. But Jumblatt's office disputes the quotes. Comments by a leading Lebanese politician published Thursday have stirred speculation that he is considering a break with the country's U.S.-backed political alliance, which is locked...
From Beirut to the Beltway (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
There's been an explosion in Lebanon, as you know by now. A mysterious force killed Talal Arslan's right hand man, Saleh Aridi, presumably as punishment for the Druze leader's reconciliation with the other Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt. There were reports...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
... Amin Gemayel, Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun, Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt and the head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc Mohammed Raad, as well as Christian Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea were also in attendance. But some of the leaders, such as Christian rivals Michel Aoun, who is a a member of the Hezbollah-led opposition and Samir Geagea,...
