Terror is nothing new to Walid Phares. The 43-year-old Florida Atlantic University associate professor grew up in Beirut and survived the Lebanese civil war of 1975 to 1990. A Maronite Christian, he recalls witnessing the detonation of the first car bomb in his hometown in 1977. Indeed he's lucky to have lived through it. Dozens of people were killed in the blast, he recalls; the only reason he's around today is that he stopped to tie his shoe, then watched the bodies pile up just a couple of... More >>>