●Jumblatt's 14 February speech: "you want an open war"

On 14 February 2008, on the anniversary of Hariri's assassination in Martyrs' Square and the day of the funeral of the martyr commander Hajj Imad Mughniyeh in the southern suburbs, Walid Jumblatt attacked Hezbollah and Syria in his harshest speech: "You want it an open war, so let it be", and threatened confrontation over the party's weapons; the speech paved the way for the decisions of 5 May and the events of 7 May.