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Article: Druze Leader Sees Fighters Off to Libya;Jumblatt Concedes Shortage of Funds
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- The Washington Post
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- September 21, 1987
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Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said goodbye to 800 of his mountain
warriors today on the eve of their departure for Libya, where, for
money and arms, they are to fight alongside Libyan troops of Col.
Moammar Gadhafi in his war with Chad over the Aozou Strip.
Wearing Soviet-issue desert combat fatigues, packs and black
boots, the Druze fighters, aged 18 to 25, broke into song when
Jumblatt arrived, flanked by his tall, blond wife and Libyan
diplomats based in Syria.
Young men of the Progressive Socialist Party carried large red
banners as the fighters pledged their "blood and soul" to Jumblatt,
then listened solemnly as he announced that the time had come to "pay
back our Libyan brothers for ...