Jumblat: 'There is no President, Everything Controlled from Bekaa Spot'

Naharnet

Druze leader Walid Jumblat complained Wednesday of an intimidation campaign waged against his Progressive Socialist Party activists by the state's secret service, saying "there is no president in Lebanon." Jumblat, speaking to reporters from Samir Geagea's house in Zouk Mosbeh after signing a parliamentary petition for the release of the LF commander from jail, took another jibe at Syria's military intelligence chief in Lebanon Brig. Gen. Rustom Ghazaleh, who has his command headquarters in the Bekaa town of Anjar. "The Lebanese authority seems to have totally lost control. Everything nowadays is controlled from a certain spot in the Bekaa, Jumblat said. An Nahar had earlier said that the persecution campaign against the PSP was now entering its second straight week. Several PSP activists had been escorted to interrogation at the Justice Palace in Beirut into 'fabricated cases' dating back to the civil war. "Those summoned to the Justice Palace are held in detention for eight hours before they are interrogated and then set free," An Nahar quoted PSP officials as having said.