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The Bomb In Verdun..

The bombing in Verdun is significant in many ways

Although it resembles yesterday’s Ashrafieh bombing, the Verdun bombing has meanings of its own. For example, this is the first time that a Sunni neighborhood of Beirut is targeted, after terrorism being exclusively carried out in Christian areas. This could mark the beginning of a new phase [...]

Orange Twist

Question: how can General Aoun justify his position which supports the Army but denounces the Government?
Easy: Just announce (audio)that the “Army was backstabbed because the secret services (which answer to the ministry of interior) did not share their intelligence with it” (An allegation that the minister of defense -defense, not interior- strongly denied)

The Case For Firm Action

The Army is already being criticized for its “heavy-handed” shelling of the Palestinian camps. But it would be wrong for it to soften up now.
The Army’s actions are popular in Tripoli. (Reuters)
To viewers watching Al-Jazeera’s coverage of the Lebanese crisis, the Lebanese army’s shelling of the militants’ hideouts in the Nahr el Bared camp appears [...]

Now Lebanon

A new ambitious news website about Lebanon is now online. Check it out.
تم تأسيس مجموعة “الرأي الجديد” لتكون منتدى للبحث والحوار والنقاش في شأن لبنان اليوم، انطلاقاً من الاقتناع بأن العمل يجب، لكي يكون فاعلاً، أن يكون مدعوماً بفهم شامل للمواضيع. وستعمل مجموعتنا، التي تضم عدداً من أبرز الأكاديميين والصحافيين والمعلقين السياسيين وكبار الصناعيين، على [...]

Bomb In ABC

A Bomb that exploded in the parking lot of the ABC mall in Ashrafieh (pictured) resulted in the killing of 1 woman and the injury of 9. Let’s hope people remain calm and pray for the victims.

So much for that annoying guy with the machine that “detects” bomb at the entrance.
PS: don’t forget to read [...]

So What’s Going On In Tripoli ?

The Northern city of Tripoli is witnessing an all-out war between the army and Islamic groups. Why is it happening?
Smoke rising from the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp(Reuters)
Of all the people listening to the news on the violence in Tripoli today, Ban Ki Moon, the United Nations secretary general, is the least surprised.
After all, the [...]

Surprise: Arabs Do Care About Darfur

One of the most enduring Myths in the western world, that the Arabs don’t give a fig about Darfur, turned out to be false.
You must have read it before, somewhere in the American media, something along the lines of: Arabs and Muslims make a big fuss when westerners kill Muslims, but when they kill each [...]