Jumblatt Calls Trading for Hostages a Mistake
Lebanon’s Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said Monday he feared Western hostages kidnaped in Lebanon may be killed, but attempts to exchange arms or money for their lives is a mistake.
“It was the greatest mistake to swap arms or money for hostages,” Jumblatt said in an interview on French television. “And it shouldn’t have been done.” He was referring to the secret shipments of arms from the United States to Iran.
Jumblatt said that there was nothing he could do for the Western hostages, and that he was “afraid for their lives.”
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