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Jumblat Expresses
Strong Sympathy with Geagea's
LF
August 7, 2001
Druze overlord Walid Jumblat
has made a strong expression
of sympathy with Samir
Geagea's Lebanese Forces,
saying no one can deny
the energetic existence
of the LF although its
has been outlawed by the
government.
Jumblat made the remark
after a meeting with Premier
Hariri Monday evening
in which the ramifications
of Patriarch Nasrallah
Sfeir's historic tour
of the Druze hinterland
was a prime topic of discussion.
Jumblat was asked by reporters
after the meeting about
the dense presence of
LF flags side-by-side
with the banners of Jumblat's
Progressive Socialist
Party during the receptions
given to the Maronite
Patriarch at his main
Chouf stops.
"The Lebanese forces
is a fact, a movement
with an energetic presence,"
Jumblat responded. "Even
if we have officially
cancelled it, the movement
exists and it attracts
plenty of sympathy which
we cannot stop."
Jumblat went on: "There
are young Christian and
non-Christian believers
with Lebanese Forces.
" What should we
tell them? You don't exist?
Of course not. They do
exist,"
Jumblat recently called
for the improvement of
Geagea's incarceration
conditions at his prison
in the Lebanese defense
ministry, where he has
been serving since 1994
a total of 120 jail sentences.
Geagea has complained
through his defense attorneys
that he is subjected to
"devastating psychological
torture in an airless,
lightless underground
cell" at the defense
ministry compound in suburban
Yarze.
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