Jumblat Hammers FPM, Hamas, Syria, Iran
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Thursday termed Michel Aoun”s Free Patriotic Movement "hostile (faction) affiliated with the Syrian regime."
"The side that controls the ministry of communications is hostile and affiliated with the Syrian regime," Jumblat said in a television interview, referring to Communications Minister Gebran Bassil.
He said the ministry "withheld" data needed by the UN commission probing the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri and related crimes.
He also accused "officers of the previous era" of "infiltrating" into the ministry of communications after Bassil assumed the portfolio.
Syrian President Bashar Assad, Jumblat added, "would not allow the international tribunal to try even a sergeant in his regime."
Jumblat also criticized Hamas Movement and spoke of information that it was arming up for a possible coup against the Palestine Liberation organization in refugee camps across Lebanon.
Jumblat also said Iran wants to spread its influence across the Arab World using "the Syrian regime, Hamas and Hizbullah."
Jumblat declared support for "independent candidates" in constituencies where March 14 partisans cannot win the elections.
He accused leaders of March 8 factions of persisting with their visits to Damascus "to receive instructions."