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Beirut! Beirut! Beirut!

Posted By Roger L Simon On March 14, 2005 @ 7:29 am In Uncategorized | 126 Comments

The biggest demonstration yet ^[1] (800,000… a million who knows…) on the streets of Beirut – this time from the pro-democracy side. How thrilling it is to see this! Let’s all pray (even we agnostics) for continued non-violence.

UPDATE: The Al-Jazeera ^[1] coverage is worth reading on many levels. Also always worth in look during this excitement is the Lebanon Daily Star ^[2] which has some disquieting reports of violence, though sporadic so far.

MORE: Turkey’s Zaman Online ^[3] is reporting the number of anti-Syria/pro-democracy demonstrators in Beirut to be “nearly two million”! Isn’t the population of Lebanon itself only slightly above three million?

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[1] biggest demonstration yet: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-03-14-lebanon-syria_x.htm

[2] Daily Star: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=13398

[3] Zaman Online: http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20050314&hn=17473

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