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Jumblat Warns Hizbullah: Let it Be War and We Will Seize your Rockets
Jumblat Warns Hizbullah: Let it Be War and We Will Seize your Rockets
Druze leader Walid Jumblat on Sunday warned Hizbullah that the majority March 14 coalition was ready to go to war if the Iranian and Syrian backed group was after disorder.
"You want chaos? It will be welcomed. If the others want war, then March 14 is ready. And if they want peace, March 14 is also ready," Jumblat said at a press conference.
"War does not scare us. We have no problem with weapons or rockets," Jumblat said in reference to Hizbullah's possession of thousands of missiles.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had said his group increased its stock of rockets since the 2006 summer war with Israel ended, despite attempts to keep arms from being smuggled into southern Lebanon.
In a speech last October, Nasrallah said his group had 33,000 rockets — up from the 22,000 he said they had on Sept. 22.
"We will seize them (rockets) from you because we don't fear martyrdom," Jumblat vowed.
He also warned against "armed groups planning to carry out terrorist attacks against the army in the mountains."
Jumblat pointed out that the problem today is between the "Hizbullah militia and the government, which is the only one that can take a decision to go to war or peace."
Jumblat challenged Nasrallah, telling him: "Join us if you dare (in our drive) to build a free, independent Lebanon."
He said the entire country will turn into "Security Squares," a reference to the so-called "Security Square" which is part of the Hizbullah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut.
"We tell those who want to return the Syrian tutelage to Lebanon that we will not succumb," Jumblat threatened. "Don't you think we will accept return of this tutelage."
On the international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the 2005 assassination of former five-time Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and related crimes, Jumblat said that Saudi Arabia pledged to provide the money needed to set up the court.
"Punishment will come, so will the noose," Jumblat warned.
Jumblat called on everybody to carry the Lebanese flag and take part quietly in the Feb. 14 rally to commemorate the third anniversary of Hariri's murder.
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Madness takes over Lebanon.
Militants are fighting in the streets of Beirut. Military guns are on both sides. What is the prospect of such a situation. Aren't the Lebanese fed-up with wars?
23 November 2007
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud left the Baabda presidential palace without handing over the power to a new president. This is the first time since independence in 1943. |
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