Mr. Walid Jumblat refers to a “secret document” which proves that Hezbollah is monitoring the Airport’s runway 17 using containers in Ouzai. (for commentary and details, click here and here )

Since Mr. Jumblat suggested that the containers could be used to shoot down a landing airplane, the matter should be looked into as soon as possible by the authorities. But if you’re curious, I checked the recently-updated Google Earth and found out exactly where those containers could be:

Below is a close-up of the Area marked in red:

Notice how the containers have unhindered access via a wide sand road to the main street.

Update:

Over at LPJ, Blogger Charles makes a valid point:

In Beirut, you don’t even need radar to track aircraft. From any tall building, the naked eye is a decent instrument to use to track incoming aircraft into the airport. Much more can be done the higher up in the mountains one goes. Any radical with a surface to air missile can set up base on the Rmleit al Bayda beach, or any seaside tall building, and take potshots at incoming planes. Send a monitor to Cyprus, infiltrate Cypriot government monitoring systems, or install your own system in the generally ungoverned Turkish Cypriot area and you’ll have even better equipment with which to monitor aircraft in the Eastern Mediterranean.

A widely circulated fact in Lebanon is that the Lebanese who live abroad make much more money than those who live in the mainland. A new study by the Center for Global Development exposes the real figures for the first time.

So far, all previous studies made on average incomes were country-centric. That means that all figures relate to what is being produced in the country itself. But now, a new statistic by the Center for Global Development measures the average incomes of people who are born in a certain country, not those of people who live in it

After looking at the paper, I made this table for Arab countries’ “income per naturals”:

It turns out that the average Lebanese makes outside of Lebanon 31.6% more than he or she makes inside of Lebanon. A league of our own if we compare the figure to other Arab countries.