January 1^st, 2006

Ana bide shee…

Bas shou hal shee ba ma3rif.

So this is it…my 30 second update…

From Beirut Lebanon. I’ll start off by telling you that the situation here could be better. We could have been eating our own shit which we’re not at least bas the political situation only seems to be diminished a little each day. I would like to make a note of Israel’s bombing that hit south of Beirut on Wednesday. This attack was in response to 3 rockets that were launched from Lebanon into an Israeli town…Not hezbollah this time but some mysterious force some dared to call al-quaeda. it ended up being the Palestinians admitting. on the same day a judge was attacked in the full brightness of daylight while jogging after already being treated more than once. Then on friday night a Syrian official, former minister of exterior current parliament MP fleed to France to tell the story of what he knows in regards to Syrian involvement in R Hariri’s assassination last valentines day. This was a very inconvenient time for his confession as my friends and I were planning a trip to Damascus the next day which inevitably was canceled. This all comes less than a month after popular and powerful parliament MP and editor in chief of the main newspaper here Al-nahar was assassinated when a car bomb detonated as his car was passing it by on the early morning of December 12^th. Instability I say…but compared to the rest of the world how much more unstable are we? might be a difficult one to answer. The world is balancing on the tip of a needle. And the US, I mean how unstable can we get!?!