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Template:Arabic Here is an interesting anecdote about Walid Jumblatt. This is a direct quote from Thomas Friedman's "From Beirut to Jerusalem":

     Walid's father, Kemal, was assassinated, purportedly by Syrian agents, in Lebanon in 1977, when he dared to
openly cross  Assad. Walid was fond of telling friends about a particularly 
memorable meeting he later had with the Syrian President.
     Walid was ushered into Assad's huge office and at a distance he could see the President sitting behind his
desk...As Walid approached, Assad greeted him warmly with the traditional Arabic salutation "Ahlan wa sahlan,
ahlan wa sahlan"--my house is your house. The two men got to talking, and Assad in his roundabout manner 
intimated to Walid how he expected him to behave with regard to a certain situation developing in Lebanon. Walid
evinced some reluctance. At one point, according to Walid, Assad looked at him lovingly and told him, with his thin
smile, "You know, Walid, I look at you sitting there and you remind me of exactly of your dear father. What a man he
was. What a shame he is not with us. Ahlan wa sahlan.
     Walid immediately understood that he was being made an offer he could not refuse.

--Bash 03:45, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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The Jumblatt family was originally of Sunni Kurdish descent and they later became accepted as part of the Druze community and his surname means ‘the iron man’ in Kurdish