Lebanon Jihad Update from the Daily Star, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
BEIRUT: Prominent Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt lashed out at Damascus on Sunday, saying he “feared the current Syrian regime is trying to turn Lebanon into another Iraq by exporting Al-Qaeda fighters into the country.”Jumblatt, who is the head of the Progressive Socialist Party and a member of the anti-Syrian March 14 Forces, said that Syrian President Bashar Assad had warned that some members of the terrorist Al-Qaeda group “have been fleeing Syria toward Lebanon.”
Jumblatt said: “When Assad spoke of Syria pursuing Al-Qaeda members, leading them to flee toward Lebanon, this reminded me of what is going on in Iraq, and the Al-Qaeda members fleeing Syria toward Iraq and killing Iraqis and causing chaos.”…