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'''United States Committee for a Free Lebanon''' is part of what has been described as "the Lebanese Likud". Its President, [[Ziad Abdel Nour]] is the son of wealthy Lebanese Minister of Parliament [[Khalil Abdel Nour]]. According to Trish Schuh:

:USCFL partners with designated "democratizers" such as the [[American Enterprise Institute]] (created by Lebanese-American William Baroody, Sr.), [[Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations]], [[Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs]], [[Republican Jewish Coalition]], [[Foundation for the Defense of Democracies]], [[Middle East Forum]], the [[Hudson Institute]] and kindred pro-Israel lobbies.

:The USCFL hails former Lebanese president [[Amin Gemayel]] for signing a peace deal with Israel in 1983...Abdel Nour's other links include the [[World Lebanese Organization]], which advocates Israel's re-occupation of south Lebanon. In 2000, he and neocon [[Daniel Pipes]] composed the policy paper "''Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: the US Role''" and together co-author the [[Middle East Intelligence Bulletin]]. The bulletin is a project of the neocon [[Middle East Forum]] and is a frequent resource for American intelligence agencies.{{ref|schuh}}

==Neocon Nexus==

USCFB is essentially a neocon operation as it boasts the familiar cast of neocon luminaries in what it calls its "golden circle" of core activists and supporters:<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20061010003523/http://www.freelebanon.org/gc.htm USFCL - Board of Directors], USFCL, via the Internet Archive, archived 10 October 2006, accessed 28 March 2009.</ref>

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  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Elliot Abrams]]</td>
    <td>[[Douglas Feith ]]</td>
    <td>[[Frank Gaffney]]</td>
    <td>[[David Wurmser]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Jeane Kirkpatrick]]</td>
    <td>[[Michael Ledeen]]</td>
    <td>[[Habib Malik]]</td>
    <td>[[Richard Perle]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Michael Rubin]]</td>
    <td>[[Daniel Pipes]]</td>
    <td>[[Eleana Benador]]</td>
    <td>[[Rachel Ehrenfeld]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Joseph Farah]]</td>
    <td>[[Robert Guzzardi]]</td>
    <td>[[Steven Plaut]]</td>
    <td>[[David Steinmann]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Salo Aizenberg]]</td>
    <td>[[Nadim Akda]]</td>
    <td>[[Joseph Boohaker]]</td>
    <td>[[Samir Bustany]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Thomas Patrick Carroll]]</td>
    <td>[[John Castle]]</td>
    <td>[[David Chazen]]</td>
    <td>[[Angelo Codevilla]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Alain Gabriel Courtines]]</td>
    <td>[[Chris Culp]]</td>
    <td>[[Paula Dobriansky]]</td>
    <td>[[Alan Dowt]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Leon Edney]]</td>
    <td>[[Michael Eisenstadt]]</td>
    <td>[[Nabil El Hage]]</td>
    <td>[[Joseph Hakim]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[David Epperly]]</td>
    <td>[[Philip Epstein ]]</td>
    <td>[[Joseph Fadoul ]]</td>
    <td>[[Amir Ali Farman Farma]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Gil Feiler]]</td>
    <td>[[Gary Gambill]]</td>
    <td>[[Roger Gerber]]</td>
    <td>[[Leonard Getz]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Richard Greenfield]]</td>
    <td>[[George Haddad]]</td>
    <td>[[Richard Hellmann]]</td>
    <td>[[Irwin Hochberg]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Matthew Levitt]]</td>
    <td>[[Daniel Lubetzky]]</td>
    <td>[[Bruce McFarlane]]</td>
    <td>[[Mark Michael]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[John Myhill]]</td>
    <td>[[Mordechai Nisan]]</td>
    <td>[[Muhammad Oueiny]]</td>
    <td>[[Joseph Puder]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Scott Rosenblum]]</td>
    <td>[[Nina Rosenwald]]</td>
    <td>[[Charles Sahyoun]]</td>
    <td>[[Jim Saxton]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Eric Silverman ]]</td>
    <td>[[Jimmy Sleiman]]</td>
    <td>[[Don Starry]]</td>
    <td>[[Paul Michael Wihbey]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Jonathan Usher]]</td>
    <td>[[Stanley Weiss]]</td>
    <td>[[James Tayoun]]</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

==References==
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*{{note|schuch}}Trish Schuh, [http://www.counterpunch.org/schuh11182005.html Faking the Case Against Syria], ''Counterpunch'', November 18, 2005
*{{note|gc}}[http://www.freelebanon.org/gc.htm The Golden Circle of USCFL]