Hezbollah scouts welcome Pope in Beirut

Arriving in Beirut International Airport Friday, among the first groups to welcome Pope Benedict XVI were rows of hundreds of child and teen members of the Hezbollah scouts, alongside black chador-clad Shiite Muslim women waving the Lebanese flags.

Some 1,000 boys and girls – all members of the Mahdi scouts – line up on the road out from the airport dressed in well-pressed shirts, blue or military green depending on their ages, adorned with a badge showing the picture of Iranian religious and political leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

via NOW Lebanon.