Talk:Walid Phares

I put this on the talk page, because the data, although extremely troubling, as well as possible, hasn't been sourced to my satisfaction. Still, because I did not find any strongly dispositive sources either, I feel it should be mentioned here.

I recently browsed wikipedia Phares stub's history and ran across a record, which lasted approx. 7hrs before being excised. Neither of the two edits were done by individuals using a wikipedia account. The addition was done from a San Jose dsl line, and the excise edit was from a Miami, fla dsl line, and the comment justifying the removal was simply 'nonsense'.

The additional data stated


 * "Walid Phares has had a long and close relationship with the Guardians of the Cedar, a pro-Israel Lebanese militia. The group, which in 1976 led the massacre of at least 3,000 Palestinian men, women, and children at the Tel al-Za'atar refugee camp near Beirut (and continues to call the massacre a "cleansing"), is labeled “an extremist Christian group” by the US State Department. The Congressional Research Service labels them an 'extremist Maronite militia and terrorist organization.'"

Antiwar dot com has an article, by Ismail Royer written on September 26, 2002, which offers better cited sllegations, which are substantially the same. Royer is presently serving twenty years for violating the neutrality act, and supplying weapons to Pakistani Kashmiri rebels.

Ah, the dilemma...google was uniformative, although in my view slightly favoring the argument that Phares was an active in the Lebanese Phalangist movement.

--hugh_manateee 11:21, 27 Apr 2006 (EDT)