Dirty Lebanese hands

"The whole thing seems to have started with a highly speculative account on July 4 in WND, labeled an “exclusive” and titled: “New Border Risk: ISIS Ties to Mexican Drug Lords.”  (ISIS and ISIL are other names for Islamic State.) The article quoted Michael Maloof, who it described as a former “top Defense Department analyst” and “expert on the Middle East:”"  This guy ran as a candidate in the last parliamentary election in Lebanon in 2009 and received something like 4 votes, although he never expressed the views that he expresses in English here in the US.