In an interview with the Al Arabiya television network Thursday evening, Jumblatt said the question of assassinations targeting anti-Syrian Lebanese figures became intolerable when MP-journalist Gibran Tueini was assassinated on December 12, 2005.

"The fog over my eyes dissolved once and for all" after Tueni's assassination, said the PSP chief, who has previously accused Syria of being involved in the killings.

"I said enough," added Jumblatt, a legislator and a key figure in the anti-Syrian majority coalition. "There is a political, security and intelligence linkage (between Hezbollah and the Syrian regime)."

"The tools, operations and results are all the same," Jumblatt said. "Ever since that time I have been accusing them somewhere of standing behind some, not to say all, assassinations."

Six prominent anti-Syrian figures have been slain in the past two years. A U.N. investigation into the 2005 bomb blast that killed ex-Premier Rafik Hariri has implicated senior Syrian officials and Lebanese accomplices. Syria has denied involvement.

Jumblatt equally accused Hezbollah of fearing an extension of the U.N. probe into Hariri's assassination that could cover other bomb and shooting attacks against outspoken Damascus critics.

Jumblatt wondered "why was it then that Hezbollah quit the government on 12/12/2006, tugging behind (Parliament Speaker) Nabih Berri?"

"Hezbollah pulled out of the government saying they were in favor of an international tribunal (in the Hariri slaying) but against any extension of the probe," Jumblatt said, referring to the resignations of six ministers, including two from Hezbollah, last month.

"That is because in one way or another, they (Hezbolllah) are implicated in the attacks that killed Tueni, Samir Kassir, Georges Hawi (all in 2005) and Pierre Gemayel (2006) and which targeted journalist May Chidiac and (cabinet) minister Elias Murr (2005)," Jumblatt said.

Echoing an accusation voiced by anti-Syrian Communications Minister Marwan Hamadeh on Thursday, Jumblatt said the "the car bomb that targeted Marwan (on October 1, 2004) was prepared in the southern suburbs of Beirut," a Hezbollah stronghold.

Hariri's assassination "was prepared high up," Jumblatt said in an apparent reference to Syria, "but the other crimes, or some of them, took place here" in Lebanon.

"There, I don't want to say more, but I said it."

Hamadeh, who was seriously wounded in a booby-trapped car explosion on Oct. 1, 2004, on Wednesday vowed to sue Hezbollah and its mouthpiece Al Manar television on charges of "inciting" his assassination.

Nasrallah not a Lebanese leader

Jumblatt told Al Arabiya tv that Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is not a Lebanese leader , since he acts on instructions from Iran and Syria. Jumblatt added Nasrallah’s master instructor is Imad Mugniyah , who currently resides peacefully in Iran.

Mugniyah ( L) has been implicated in many of terrorist attacks in the 1980s and 1990s, primarily American and Israeli targets. These include the April 18, 1983 bombing of the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed 63 people including 17 Americans. He was later blamed for the October 23, 1983 simultaneous truck bombings against the French paratroopers and US Marine barracks .The attacks killed 58 French soldiers and 241 Marines.

Almost a year later on September 20, 1984, Mugniyah attacked the US embassy annex building. The United States indicted him for the June 14, 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847, which resulted in the death of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem. He was also linked to numerous kidnappings of Westerners in Beirut through the 1980s, most notably that of Terry Anderson. Some of these individuals were later killed such as U.S. Army Col William Francis Buckley.

Berri is a Hezbollah prisoner

Jumblatt said Speaker Nabih Berri is now a prisoner. Hezbollah has kidnapped him and he has been probably under threat because the force behind the coup in Lebanon is not a force of reason and justice but a criminal gang that only knows evil and drugs.

Sources: Naharnet, LBC, Ya Libnan