Junblat called for trying President al-Assad

The Lebanese Druze leader Walid Junblat in statements to the CNN renewed accusations against the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of killing Tweini and called for trying al-Assad.

Junblat said "my father was killed at the hands of the Syrian regime as well as several prominent journalists and persons including the Lebanese President René Muaawad and the Lebanese republic Mufti Hassan Khaled and others."

He called for changing the regime in Damascus and trial of this "sick man" noting that "if he remains in power we will never know stability in the Middle east and Lebanon."

In an interview with the Lebanese LBC TV, Junblat said that he put himself under the protection of the leader of the leader of Hizbullah and Damascus alley Sheikh Hassan Nasrullah. He added I am under the "protection of Mr. Hassan from the regime of Bashar al-Assad who kills each and every one who says 'no' to the Syrian mafia presence in Lebanon."

In the second interview, Junblat expressed his support for the founding of an international court for the killers of Hariri, demanding that this court to consider the crimes of the Lebanese war which general pardoning concerning it was issued in the Taif agreement in 1989.