Exiled anti-Syrian leader returns to Beirut

Anti-Syrian leader Michel Aoun returned to Beirut today from 14 years’ exile in France – to a crowd of cheering supporters at the airport and less than two weeks after Syrian troops withdrew from Lebanon.

Aoun, arriving from Paris on a special Middle East Airlines flight with about 100 aides, waved to a small crowd as he emerged from the plane with his wife Nadia and two aides and flanked by bodyguards.