BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt called for the “elimination” of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the arming of the rebels in a recent interview with the radio station France Info. The Druze leader said that short of Assad being killed, he should be taken to Siberia in Russia or the Iranian desert. Jumblatt, who during the March commemoration of his father’s assassination draped his father’s grave in the Syrian rebel flag, called for the West to supply the Syrian opposition with weapons to fight the regime, according to the interview.