The Arab Democratic Party is a mainly Alawite organization (The Middle East and North Africa, 1999, 622). This factor explains their political alignment with Syria's Alawite ruling minority (Political Parties of the World, 1988, 330). This information is corroborated in a report carried by the BBC Summary of World Broadcasts (3 June 1988). According to one report, in 1988, the Secretary Gen. of the Party was Ali Id (BBC, Summary of World Broadcasts, 4 Oct. 1988). The Party is a member of the Lebanese National Front (BBC, Summary of World Broadcasts, 5 July 1989). This organization is also reported to be pro-Syrian (The Xinhua General Overseas News Service, 4 July, 1989).

The Party's militia is called the Red Knights and in 1980 was reportedly involved in fighting alongside with Syrian troops during an operation to crush the Tawheed, (Islamic Unification Movement) a Sunni fundamentalist group (Political Parties of the World, 1988, 622). Fighting was also reported between the Arab Democratic Party and Tawheed in the northern port of Tripoli (A Country Study, 1987, 213). One of the Party's clinics was bombed in Tripoli in 1988 (The United Press International, 5 February 1988).

No Further information is currently available to the IRBDC in Ottawa.
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