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Lebanon's Druze chieftain and PSP leader Junblatt on Aug. 2 said he was leaving March 14. It was then said that, since Hizbullah's May 2008 blitz, Junblatt has been blackmailed in various ways by the Shi'ite group and the local allies of the Syrian regime. He moved from the March 14 camp, where he was a main pillar, into what he thought was to take him to the Syrian fold - but not through the March 8 camp, rather through a supposedly central bloc of President Suleiman. While Assad responded favourably to his move, however, Suleiman was positioning himself as an arbiter between the two rival camps, rather than heading a bloc.
So Junblatt, having leaped from being Assad's arch-enemy, found himself being in a void. That was because the...
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