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As if the pro-Hezbollah, anti-American daily read my post yesterday. In a typical Assafir fashion, they “expose the conspiracy’s details” in their leading story.

The story has taken off..

The daily begins by asking: Why have high ranking American military commanders been visiting Lebanon regularly since the July war, visits that were crowned this week by the arrival of the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Political Issues, Mr. Eric Eidelmann, at the head of a Pentagon delegation?

After you thank God for Assafir’s “trusted sources” and reports from “official American corners”, sit back, relax, and read how the newspaper unravels the mysteries of the evil American plan to dominate our poor Middle East.

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that jet, my dear mustapha, is a Eurofighter! ;) **Note from administrator: The picture was replaced. It is now that of an F16 **

Even if the Americans have decided to invest the tens of millions of dollars it would take to build a permanent state-of-the art airbase in a country as unstable as our little lebanon, I doubt you’d be seeing a Eurofighter through your appartment window in tripolli!

Posted by raja | October 18, 2007, 10:16 am
Ok I’m busted, I’m no military expert :) (although i swear i googled “f16″ in the image search). I’ll see if i can find another pic.

Posted by Mustapha | October 18, 2007, 11:23 am
Piss Hassan off…Advocate it!

Posted by Danny | October 18, 2007, 12:37 pm
Nasrallah, Assads and Am-jads days are numbered…

After they are gone – who will stand in the way of a new, modern, happy and peacefull middle east ?

Posted by Andrew The American | October 18, 2007, 1:10 pm
You nailed it well Mustapha! good scoop! ;)

Posted by Jester | October 18, 2007, 4:07 pm
raja,

Does it matter? It is not even a jet, its a picture.

Posted by leo | October 18, 2007, 5:25 pm
[...] Update: The Story has now been taken up by the Lebanese Main Stream Media. [...]

Posted by A US Military Base In Lebanon? | The Beirut Spring, a Lebanese Blog | October 18, 2007, 5:28 pm
I love it.

“Why have American officials been visiting Lebanon so much?” automatically implies some sort of evil conspiracy.

But when Nassrallah, Berri and company visit Damascus and Tehran every other week, it’s perfectly ok.

And as I said before, we’ve allowed bases in Lebanon for Syria, Palestinian groups, Hezbollah, various militias, Iranian Revolutionary Guards…Might as well be fair and allow the zionists and Americans one base for each one of those others…Right?

Posted by Bad Vilbel | October 18, 2007, 5:39 pm
“Update” The story has now been officially refuted by the head of the Lebanese Army…

…”Update”: the story was (and always has been) a miserable piece of propaganda used by the Syrians/Iranians and their cronies to rile their sheople up (BV did you use that somewhere…I know I’ve seen it before…I like it!). For reasons why it doesn’t even bear thinking about read the point made by myself and Ghassan in Mustapha’s previous piece…

…and for the love of god can we talk about something more pertinent – like a Human League music video for instance ;)

Posted by Blacksmith Jade | October 18, 2007, 6:49 pm
anyone see or read this today?? i know its the MSM, but…

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3752687&page=1

Posted by anthem boy | October 21, 2007, 2:13 am
oh yeah, i know its not a human league video, but here’s some lyrics for you.

If it seems a little time is needed
Decisions to be made
The good advice of friends unheeded
The best of plans mislaid

Just looking for a new direction
In an old familiar way
The forming of a new connection
To study or to play

And so the conversation turned
Until the sun went down
And many fantasies were learned
On that day

Keep feeling fascination
Passion burning
Love so strong
Keep feeling fascination
Looking learning
Moving on

Well the truth may need some
Re-arranging
Stories to be told
And plain to see the facts are changing
No meaning left to hold

And so the conversation turned
Until the sun went down
And many fantasies were learned
On that day

And so the conversation turned
Until the sun went down
And many fantasies were learned
On that day

Posted by anthem boy | October 21, 2007, 2:17 am

Hello, my name is Mustapha and I blog in The Beirut Spring about Lebanese society and politics. I started in February 2005 after the killing of P.M. Rafik Hariri.