Uh-oh…my roommate my not want to leave Oxford much next year
“All of us in Lebanon have a “sense of possibilities” right now—and they are all bad. The Lebanese army—still fighting its way into the Palestinian Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in the north of the country more than a month after the minister of defence announced total victory over the army’s “Fatah al-Islam” opponents—is about the only institution still working in this country. Yesterday morning’s [July 27] Beirut newspapers carried front-page pictures of Lebanese soldiers aboard an armoured personnel carrier, all making “victory” signs to photographers.”
Read the whole story:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070803_expecting_the_worst_in_lebanon/