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	Kamal Jumblatt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kamal Jumblatt was born in 1917 in Mukhtara, in the Chouf area of Lebanon, in prestigious Jumblatt family, who were traditional leaders of the Lebanese Druze community.
		Jumblatt supported Egypt against an attack by Israel, France, and the United Kingdom in the Suez War of 1956, while Chamoun and parts of the Maronite Christian elite in Lebanon tacitly supported the invasion.
		Jumblatt had organized his own PSP into an armed force, and made it the backbone of the Lebanese National Movement (LNM), a coalition of left-wing Lebanese demanding the abolition of the sectarian quota system that permeated Lebanese politics, which discriminated against Muslims.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kamal_Jumblatt (1671 words)

	Dossier: Walid Jumblat (May 2001)
		However, the political ascendancy of the Jumblatts carried with it a tragic tale of political intrigue and martyrdom - four of Walid Jumblatt's direct ancestors died as a direct result of their political stances.
		Jumblatt's political inheritance was shaky from the start, as he lacked the political stature, experience, and charisma of his late father.
		Jumblatt, however, was unwilling to dispense with the newfound popularity among the population at large that came with his public criticism of Syria.
	www.meib.org /articles/0105_ld1.htm (3506 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Druze
		They organized a militia (one of the strongest militia in the War) under the leadership of Walid Jumblatt, (son of Kamal Jumblatt), in opposition to the Maronite Christian Phalangist militia of Bachir Gemayel.
		Walid Jumblatt Walid Jumblatt (Arabic: ÙˆÙ„ÙŠØ¯ Ø¬Ù†Ø¨Ù„Ø§Ø·â€Ž;) (born August 7, 1949), is the current leader of the Progressive Socialist Party of Lebanon and the most prominent leader of the Druze community.
		Kamal Jumblatt was founder of the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party in the mid-20th century, and a major thinker and philosopher; his son Walid Jumblatt remains prominent in Lebanese politics.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Druze (4755 words)

	Dar Al Hayat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jumblatt concluded that the solution is to end the "culture of fear" that springs from Syrian military and intelligence presence in Lebanon.
		Jumblatt also talked about other regional issues, especially the conflict with Israel and he talked about all its intricate details, considering that the derivatives of this conflict are in essence the absence of independence and sovereignty.
		Jumblatt went as far as fearing the utilization of the same weapon that was utilized for the liberation of the south (i.e.
	english.daralhayat.com /opinion/OPED/01-2005/Article-20050128-ba33340a-c0a8-10ed-004e-40dabd27ba50/story.html (1296 words)

	Lebanese Political Journal: Jumblatt's Decline: Strengths and Weaknesses
		Jumblatt is, in essence, a sectarian leader unlikely to attract the votes of his former enemies.
		Jumblatt's failure was the lack of courage of abandoning his narrow sectarian based constituency in favour of establishing a truley national all inclusive movement.
		jumblatt is ambitious, but not quite as ambitious as his father; i suspect the lack of a totally clear objective has contributed to jumblatt's apparent inability to pursue a stable strategy for consolidating/increasing his own power.
	lebop.blogspot.com /2005/11/jumblatts-decline-strengths-and.html (4514 words)

	Walid Jumblatt
		Druze Lebanese leader, son and successor of Kamal Jumblatt who was assassinated in 1977.
		At that time of his accession Walid had somewhat a reputation as an playboy (even marrying a non-Druze), and it was a surprise that he became leader of the Druze.
		Walid's general goals include keeping the Syrians, Israelis, and Palestinians out of Lebanon, though of particular importance is the Syrians -- who during the 1980s he was ostensibly allied with -- as being the most likely assassins of both his father and of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
	www.nndb.com /people/602/000101299 (187 words)

	Arab-News-Druze leader Jumblatt says Syria welcomes him back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The episode recalled the fate of Jumblatt's father Kamal, a charismatic leader who is widely believed to have been killed by Syrian agents in 1977 after adopting an anti-Syrian line during the civil war.
		Jumblatt maintained close relations with the Syrians after succeeding his father as leader of the Druze fiefdom in the Chouf mountains.
		Jumblatt was the first non-Christian leader to add his voice to demands for Damascus to reduce its influence on the country.
	www3.estart.com /arab/news/jumbsyriaback.html (377 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - No US visa for Lebanese leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Walid Jumblatt had expressed regret that US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was unhurt in Baghdad attack last month.
		Jumblatt told Aljazeera.net that he has no regrets over his comments regarding Wolfowitz, adding he was not surprised by the embassy's action.
		Jumblatt said he is in no rush to re-apply for a visa and would not do so until he has received an apology from the embassy.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/588EA837-ACE8-4B60-B8FF-2F3FE2A34A20.htm (516 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Dispatches From A Small Planet . Lebanon/Syria, April 2005\| PBS
		Educated at the American University of Beirut and in France, Jumblatt, 55, is a cosmopolitan man -- a one-time motorcycle-riding playboy who became a socialist, a member of parliament and the leader of the Druze, one of Lebanon's key minority groups.
		Jumblatt's father, Kamal, was assassinated in 1977 during the early years of Lebanon's civil war, and everyone assumes the Syrians were responsible for that murder too.
		Like Jumblatt, they are pleased that the Syrians have left their country, but they have fears and concerns about Hezbollah, about the economy, about falling off the precipice into another civil war.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/dispatches/lebanon.syria/04dispatch.html (1792 words)

	Reason: Man of the Mountain: A Reason interview with Lebanon's Walid Jumblatt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Iran weighs heavily on Walid Jumblatt's mind these days, as the paramount leader of Lebanon's Druze community answers questions in his mountain palace at Mukhtara, which he rarely leaves these days, fearing assassination by Syria.
		Jumblatt was recently taken to task in Lebanon for telling David Ignatius of the Washington Post: "[The U.S.] came to Iraq in the name of majority rule.
		Jumblatt's pervasive pessimism, or realism, is sometimes an act, since the nonstop burden of impending doom is too much even for a man who has transacted and interacted with death since his late 20s.
	www.reason.com /links/links011206.shtml (1293 words)

	The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - Walid Jumblatt, or the poverty of low expectations
		Because Jumblatt is the rare Lebanese politician who can pretend to national stature, but instead consistently prefers to creep back into the recesses of tribal chieftainship, content with controlling his 200,000-strong Druze community while ensuring that others give him just enough leverage so that he can escape political obliteration.
		Beyond that, Jumblatt's ambition falters, the oxygen becomes thinner; the man whose talents are unparalleled among the country's politicians turns into a shifting manipulator, someone who in a few jagged phrases can demolish the sympathy he spent months carefully building up.
		Kamal Jumblatt regarded himself as a regional, indeed a universal figure, even as his minority status and Lebanon's confessional system were glass ceilings against which he repeatedly and frustratingly hit up against.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=15198 (1169 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Towards national reconciliation
		Celebrating the return of Christian refugees to their homes and villages in the Chouf -- a region that witnessed one of the bloodiest chapters of the civil war -- the patriarch repeatedly emphasised the importance of "coexistence" as a means to guarantee Lebanon's survival.
		Jumblatt also called on Sfeir to tour the areas of Lebanon's south which were liberated from Israeli occupation early last summer.
		Sfeir responded to Jumblatt's call during an open-air mass, when he alluded in his sermon to the suffering experienced by families due to the Israeli occupation, and of subsequently loosing their main breadwinners to prison on collaboration charges.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/546/re2.htm (900 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Beirut's Berlin Wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The leader of this Lebanese intifada is Walid Jumblatt, the patriarch of the Druze Muslim community and, until recently, a man who accommodated Syria's occupation.
		We sat under a portrait of Jumblatt's father, Kamal, who was assassinated in 1976 after he opposed the initial entry of Syrian troops into Lebanon.
		Jumblatt dresses like an ex-hippie, in jeans and loafers, but he maintains the exquisite manners of a Lebanese aristocrat.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A45575-2005Feb22?language=printer (767 words)

	NewsHog: The Next Chalibi? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This would be a great idea if some Ghandi figure was leading the opposition, but sadly Walid Jumblatt is hardly that man. What he is, however, is someone who "has repeatedly lined up on the winning side in the tangled web of foreign and domestic struggles that have engulfed Lebanon.
		Jumblatt is head of the Druze in Lebanon and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, a position he inherited when his father (who was awarded the USSR's Lenin Peace Prize in 1972) was assasinated on orders from Damascus.
		Jumblatt maintained good relations with other external actors, most notably Libya and Russia, and even resumed back-channel contacts with the Israelis, in order to keep his options open.
	cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com /2005/02/next-chalibi.html (742 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Egypt \| Lebanon talks
		Jumblatt, who has also been leading calls for Syrian troop withdrawal from Lebanon and accusing the Lebanese government and what he describes as their "Syrian backers" of Al-Hariri's murder, adopted a more reconciliatory tone, noting that Lebanon and Syria should maintain their "historic and brotherly relations".
		Jumblatt warned Karami that not holding parliamentary elections at the set date "will lead to a dangerous and long-drawn crisis".
		According to Jumblatt, Lebanon's opposition will talk to Hizbullah leaders on Lebanon's future, but disarming the group was not on his current agenda.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/735/eg1.htm (351 words)

	AM - Lebanese leader warns against delaying elections
		WALID JUMBLATT: He told me it's going to be either you or me, two weeks before his assassination.
		WALID JUMBLATT: Hezbollah is one of the pillars of independence of Lebanon.
		WALID JUMBLATT: Well, I hope it will happen on time because delaying elections will create further problems for the Lebanese and it will also make the situation uneasy.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2005/s1352129.htm (715 words)

	Across the Bay: The Moody Druze
		A thin, stylishly dressed man in his mid-50s, Jumblatt has large, sad eyes and hunched shoulders that are expressive vehicles for articulating both his frequent wit and displeasure, and now it seems as though his body is letting out a small sigh of frustration.
		Jumblatt is not just an important player, but also a kind of guide to the action.
		Jumblatt and his Progressive Socialist party first broke with Syria over the decision by Damascus last September to extend by three years the term of Lebanese president Emile Lahoud.
	beirut2bayside.blogspot.com /2005/03/moody-druze.html (2302 words)

	WILLisms.com: More On Walid Jumblatt.
		"Jumblatt is known for his vehement anti-American statements and antagonistic stance toward the U.S. On November, 19, 2003, it was reported that the State Department cancelled Jumblatt’s diplomatic visa following revelations that he expressed regret that Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz was not killed in a missile attack during a visit to Baghdad.
		Nobody should make Jumblatt a hero for one comment he made, because he is far from heroic, but he is a relevant observer, and his comments, in the context of his previous seething cynicism so rampant in the region, should be proof of the transformative power of liberty.
		Jumblatt alone is not the man on whom freedom's hopes rest.
	www.willisms.com /archives/2005/03/more_on_walid_j.html (962 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jumblatt and the minister who a short while ago wanted to put a bullet in him justifying the occupation like the obedient servants that they are.
		Jumblatt is, acting like the spoiled little brat who inherited his father’s position by an archaic tribal system, one can be assured that Mr.
		Jumblatt will quickly change the color of his skin when Lebanon is free, and switch sides again and try to explain away his treason.
	www.10452lccc.com /neal/neal14.5.03.htm (452 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Jumblatt: Syria undermining UN probe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has accused Syria of trying to destabilise Lebanon to undermine a UN inquiry implicating Damascus in the killing of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
		A Syrian witness who has accused al-Hariri's son Saad of bribing him to testify falsely, said on Monday that a report by UN investigator Detlev Mehlis implicating Syrian and Lebanese officials in the assassination was based mainly on his own lies.
		Jumblatt said the allegations of Hussam Tahir Hussam, a former Syrian intelligence agent, were part of a Syrian campaign to discredit Mehlis before UN investigators question five Syrian witnesses in Vienna.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/3E530684-D80C-4D45-BCF1-23796D490E00.htm (432 words)

	Middle East Transparent – The Pentagon’s new pin-up boy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In case anyone was unsure where he was coming from, Jumblatt noted that the true axis of evil was one of ‘oil and Jews’.
		Jumblatt, sipping Arabic coffee in a cavernous anteroom decorated with his collections of 19th-century French rifles and Roman glass, appeared genuinely chastened.
		In 1977, when Walid was a 27-year-old playboy known for speeding along the mountain roads on his Harley in denims and a leather jacket, he heard the rattle of a machine-gun.
	www.metransparent.com /texts/toby_harnden_pentagon_new_pin_up_boy.htm (1066 words)

	Journals from the crossroads of the middle east
		Walid Jumblatt represents their political demands and their claim to a seat in the national government”(56).
		Jumblatt in by saying, “This was your father’s chair when he came to see me. Come, sit in your fathers chair.” It was a not-so-subtle intimidation.
		“Jumblatt’s ideas on democracy are all very good,” said Khalil in a recent interview, “but there is a problem in how they are implemented.” Khalil explained that though Jumblatt may speak of democracy and secularism for Lebanon, he continues to behave as the feudal lord over his community in the Chouf.
	www.scripps.ohiou.edu /news/beirut/bellart.html (6336 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Walid Jumblatt- Displaced Persons Minister and Druze leader of Progressive Socialist Party (PSP).
		I, Walid Jumblatt, was born on August 7, 1949 in Beirut.
		The Jumblatt family has been a powerful element in Lebanese political life for centuries, and no member of my family was as powerful as my father, Kamal Jumblatt.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~rtanter/W96PS353S1/Jumblatt.Walid.save (607 words)

	Letter From the Levant
		Walid Jumblatt rose to prominence following the 1977 death of his father, renowned pan-Arab statesman and nationalist Kamal Jumblatt, who once was described as a “Gandhian Socialist.” The traditional chief of Lebanon’s Druze minority, Kamal Jumblatt also was a dedicated socialist and founder of his country’s Socialist Progressive Party.
		When Jumblatt’s relations with President Emile Lahoud plummeted in 1998, Syrian authorities saw to it that the Druze leader was unharmed, and ordered Lebanon’smedia decision-makers to refrain from insulting Jumblatt in any way.
		On Nov. 7 the Syrian government declared that Walid Jumblatt, its former ally in Lebanon, no longer would be accorded VIP status.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/010201/0101035.html (1665 words)

	Lebanon.com Newswire - Local News August 4 2001
		Maronite patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir (R) is welcomed by the children and mother of Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Druz community, during his visit to the village of Mukhtara, in the Shouf mountains, 04 August 2001.
		The patriarch praised "the historic role of the Jumblatt family" and recalled that Kamal Jumblatt, Walid's father, "was murdered for his patriotic stance." Kamal Jumblatt was strongly opposed to Syrian troops entering Lebanon in 1976 and was murdered some months later.
		Jumblatt, once a close Syrian ally, and a foe of the Christians during the civil war, has angered Damascus since rallying recently with the Christians in calling for more balanced ties with Syria and for implementing a Syrian troop redeployment.
	www.lebanon.com /news/local/2001/8/4.htm (1147 words)

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