Dirty Lebanese hands: the case of Fu'ad Makhzumi

" David Cameron was facing pressure tonight to explain whether the Conservatives have complied with the spirit of electoral law after the party accepted £100,000 from the British wing of a company controlled by a multibillionaire Lebanese former arms dealer. Labour accused the Tories of returning to the era of sleaze after the party accepted two donations of £50,000 from the British arm of Future Pipe Industries, controlled by Fouad Makhzoumi, an ally of the disgraced former Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken. Future Pipe Ltd donated £50,000 to the Tories one month before the 2005 general election. A second donation for the same amount was made in August last year." I have written about this opportunist Lebanese politician (with a popular base of his family) before: teachers in school run by him have complained to me about the pressures that they are subjected to in order to join his silly (and empty) National Dialogue Party. And he is part of the March 8 coalition: an ally of Jonathan Aitken in UK, and an ally of Hizbullah in Lebanon. And when he comes to the US, he is invited by the Wilson Center to offer his observations about Lebanon. When I was in my first year at IC elementary school, he was in his last year in high school. His brother was in my school bus. (thanks Leila)