Samir Geagea, leader of the extreme rightwing christian Lebanese Forces, convicted for 4 separate assassinations including a Lebanese prime minister and rival christian leader Danny Chamoun, whose entire family was wiped out with him, is a man with probably more assassinations and war crimes on his conscience than anybody else in this country where war criminals are not exactly lacking. Yet when he visited the ‘you’re either with us or with the terrorists’ crew at the White House, he was warmly received by everybody on the Middle Eastern department there, all the way up to Rice. One man’s terrorist seems to be another man’s freedom fighter indeed. For an exhaustive list of the man’s insane acts (even under the circumstances), see here - the most shocking part is actually not even the assassinations and mass murders and torturing of civilians (including many of the christians he was supposedly defending) by his Ouet brigades – it is the one where he accepts to fill the land of the people he claims to ‘protect’ with imported toxic waste just to make a buck:
Source: In The Middle of the East
