WOULDN'T WANT TO TRUST HIM, BUT YOU CAN DEFINITELY USE HIM:

Overthrow president, Syrians urged (Patrick Bishop, 16/01/2006, Daily Telegraph)

Walid Jumblatt seemed admirably composed for a man whose name had just appeared on a hit list of Lebanese public figures.

"The whole of Lebanon is on the death list, not only me," said the Druze leader and anti-Syrian figurehead. "The Syrian regime will not accept easily its defeat last year when the Lebanese people obliged them to get out. The regular forces left but [its] agents are still here." [...]

He urged the Syrian opposition to seek western support to help topple the beleaguered Damascus regime. "I am not calling for military intervention in Syria but I am asking the Syrian opposition to decide that without western help there can be no change - without [it] they will be in jail or exiled and will be blackmailed and killed."

Mr Jumblatt's voice rings particularly loudly in the ever bolder anti-Syrian chorus in Lebanon.