The United States has withdrawn a five-year entry visa from Lebanon's socialist leader Walid Jumblat for his remarks about the US architects of attack against Iraq, whom he often labeled as "Israeli operatives" in the Bush administration.
The chief of the Progressive Socialist Party received from the U.S. embassy in Beirut a message on Tuesday, informing him the State Department has found him ineligible any longer to carry an entry visa to the United States, the Beirut-based Al Mustaqbal daily reported in its Wednesday's edition.
The message said U.S. laws deny entry visas to those who use their political stature to support "terrorism." The withdrawn visa was issued in 2002 and was valid until 2007.
The latest of Jumblat's statement was his public expression of grief that U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has escaped death in a mortar attack on Baghdad's Al Rasheed Hotel during Wolfowitz's visit to Iraq last month.
Jumblat called on Iraqi resistance fighters to launch more accurate attacks on Wolfowitz the next time he visits Iraq. Jumblat also described Wolfowitz as a "virus," who needed to be destroyed. (Albawaba.com)
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