(Washington Post) David Ignatius - I spoke by telephone Tuesday with Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Druze community, who described the disclosures by Syria's former vice president, Abdul Halim Khaddam, as "quite a blow" for Assad and his key Lebanese ally, the Shiite militia Hizballah. But as Assad is backed deeper into a corner, he cautioned, "the more you squeeze the Syrians, the more they get aggressive here." What makes the Syria-Lebanon situation especially volatile, Jumblatt explained, is that it is linked to the radical new Iranian regime of President Ahmadinejad, which is aligned with Assad and Hizballah.
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