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REPORT: PSP leader Walid Jumblatt testifies before STL

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04-05-2015 | 06:31

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REPORT: PSP leader Walid Jumblatt testifies before STL

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National Struggle Front leader MP Walid Jumblatt testified Monday before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL).

MP Jumblatt accused the Syrian regime of being behind the assassination of his father Kamal Jumblatt, noting that the latter had opposed the entry of Syrian troops into the Lebanese territories and briefed late Syrian President Hafez Assad on his decision”.

MP Jumblatt also said his ties with the Syrian regime started in 1977, adding “I used to back the Syrian regime and we used to work together because, back then, we were facing threats from Israel”.

“I was compelled to make a deal with the regime that assassinated, later on, the finest intellectuals and politicians of Lebanon,” the Progressive Socialist Party leader said.

He also mentioned that the Lebanese Armed Forces once took orders from the Syrian army, noting that former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud was at the receiving end of the Syrian regime, thus "relaying" instructions to the Lebanese security apparatuses accordingly.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon was set up by the United Nations at the Lebanese government's request to try the alleged perpetrators of the 2005 bombing in which former Lebanese PM Hariri and 21 others were killed.

For more details, watch Yazbek Wehbe's full report in the video above

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