(Financial Times-UK) Roula Khalaf - Lebanese opposition leader Walid Jumblatt, chief of the Druze minority, said some pro-Syrian groups had received weapons and explosives recently, after a bomb explosion in the Christian Beirut suburb of New Jdeidah left 11 people wounded. "We are...opening...a new page in relations with Syria, but if some elements who are close to Syria lead us to security chaos, then this will backfire on Syria," he warned. Opposition leaders in Beirut fear that some of Syria's allies in Lebanon are seeking to provoke violent unrest to justify the need for some Syrian troops to remain in Lebanon.
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