The rally of Charles Chikhani on October 3rd

Is a wounded people's call
Crying out in silence
Refusing the loss of a son
Refusing the suffering of a mother
Inviting us to light a candle
All dressed in white
On Wednesday October 3rd at 8 p.m.
From BIEL to Parliament Square
Come and join the walk of Charles Chikhani
Or light a candle at your window.

Charles Chikhani is a young man who died in the explosion in Horsh Tabet on September 19, 2007, which targeted the parliament member Antoine Ghanem and killed him and 4 others including Charles.
I think this rally should be attended by many, the death of Charles and every other person who died in such explosions for the past 2 years and a half is quite unfair. Yes, unfair.
Try to be there.

Explosion near Horsh Tabet

At around 5:20pm, an explosion occured in approximity of Horsh Tabet, near Rond Point Al Hayek, no news available yet.

I heard and saw the explosion from my work, it seems it is in a residential area.

Update (6:30pm): 6 casualties and many wounded in this explosion. The explosion was targetting the convoy of Member of Parliament Antoine Ghanem, a member of the Phalange Party. The explosion caused a massive fire. It happened in Northern Matn, in Sin El Fil, near Al Hayeh roundabout.

The explosion and assassination came 3 months after the last one which killed MP Waleed Eido and his son, and a week before the parliament session whose President Nabih Berri called for, in order to discuss the presidential elections.

Ramadan Kareem

Muslims in Lebanon celebrate today the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. So, Happy Ramadan to all muslims in Lebanon and everywhere else.

Blood not gone in vain, welcome back heroes

Yesterday, all along the road from Tripoli to Beirut, Lebanese residents with Lebanese flags went to the streets and waited for the Lebanese army convoys to pass by, welcoming them back from the long 3 months war in Naher el Bared Palestinian camp in North Lebanon opposing and triumphing over the Al-Qaida inspired terrorists Fatah Al Islam. But mostly, it was to thank them and to pay their respect to them and to their late colleagues who have paid their lives in order to protect Lebanon and save it from the black worm.

Once again, thank you for the Lebanese army, and thank you for the martyrs who have lost their lives in this "cold river" war.

The long wait has finished

Lebanon's army crushed the last remnants of a militant group in a ferocious gunbattle Sunday that killed 39 of the fighters, ending a bloody three-month siege at a Palestinian refugee camp that was the country's worst internal violence in years. Nearby villages celebrated with fireworks, drumming and dancing after the government declared victory.

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The army said three soldiers were killed in Sunday's fighting and two on Saturday, raising to 158 the number of troops who have died in the conflict — Lebanon's worst internal fighting since the 1975-90 civil war. More than 20 civilians and more than 60 militants have also been killed.

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Prime Minister Fuad Saniora called Sunday's final battle the "greatest national victory for Lebanon over the terrorists in Nahr el-Bared."

President Emile Lahoud said the army "has achieved what superpowers could not in confronting terrorism."

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