Walid Phares and the Lebanese Forces. I am aware that Phares now likes to deny his past role with the Lebanese Forces (the right-wing, sectarian Christian militia that--among other war crimes--perpetrated the Sabra and Shatila massacres). Somebody yesterday posted a comment challenging my statement about Phares and his association with the Lebanese Forces. These are only two of many newspaper clips that I have in which his affiliation is clearly noted. In the top one, (As-Safir, 12/6/1987), it said that "Member of the Command Council of the Lebanese Forces, [and] head of the Lebanese Immigration Apparatus in the Lebanese Forces, Walid Phares, lectured on "the Role of Free Christianity in Lebanon and the Middle East." In the lecture, he also "criticized the mechanism of the development of Lebanse Christian resistance over 12 years." In the second one above, (As-Safir, 27/8/1991), Phares was identified as the "vice-chair" of the Extraordinary Emergency Committee for the Lebanese Front (the political leadership committee of the Lebanese Forces) (the chairperson was Etienne Saqr (who founded the Guardians of the Cedar, which during the civil war raised the slogan "Kill a Palestinian and you Shall enter heaven," and he now resides in Israel). And it has to be said that his rise in the Lebanese Forces took place at a time when it was aligned with the regime of....Saddam Husayn.
Walid Phares and the Lebanese Forces. I am aware that Phares now likes to deny his past role with the Lebanese Forces (the right-wing, sectarian Christian militia that--among other war crimes--perpetrated the Sabra and Shatila massacres). Somebody yesterday posted a comment challenging my statement about Phares and his association with the Lebanese Forces. These are only two of many newspaper clips that I have in which his affiliation is clearly noted. In the top one, (As-Safir, 12/6/1987), it said that "Member of the Command Council of the Lebanese Forces, [and] head of the Lebanese Immigration Apparatus in the Lebanese Forces, Walid Phares, lectured on "the Role of Free Christianity in Lebanon and the Middle East." In the lecture, he also "criticized the mechanism of the development of Lebanse Christian resistance over 12 years." In the second one above, (As-Safir, 27/8/1991), Phares was identified as the "vice-chair" of the Extraordinary Emergency Committee for the Lebanese Front (the political leadership committee of the Lebanese Forces) (the chairperson was Etienne Saqr (who founded the Guardians of the Cedar, which during the civil war raised the slogan "Kill a Palestinian and you Shall enter heaven," and he now resides in Israel). And it has to be said that his rise in the Lebanese Forces took place at a time when it was aligned with the regime of....Saddam Husayn.
