Syria helped engineer just such a nightmare for Israel in Lebanon in the 1980's by financing and arming Shiite Muslim groups. (Quelle: Der Spiegel ONLINE)
The former president, Hafez al-Assad, was often a shrewd operator, however, who joined the American-led coalition in the first war against Iraq in 1991 and later considered a peace deal with Israel while financing and arming anti-Israel groups in Lebanon. (Quelle: Der Spiegel ONLINE)
Perle gehört dem Führungskreis, dem so genannten Golden Circle, des US-amerikanischen Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCF Komitee für ein Freies Libanon) an. (Quelle: Neues Deutschland 2002)