THE SITUATION SUCKS

My Lebanon is boiling again. Tomorrow will be a very difficult day. Not that other days were not difficult. I always laugh when my friends complain about "THE SITUATION" in their country. Beirut seemed nice to me, quite peaceful acually. I used to be European chick who just fell in love with the glittering lights of the city seen from the plane. But then I was off the plane and on my way to the hotel on the highway and I saw the armed soldiers and went through the filters, and the cab driver turned on the light inside the car every five minutes. This is THE SITUATION everybody mentions in Lebanon. It means living with the feeling that you might, just might, pass by a car bomb meant to kill some "naughty politician" or "naughty journalist".
Yeah, tomorrow's gonna be difficult. They -I'm saying "they" cause nobody knows who did it, and as I already understood by now, nobody will try to find out and tell the world - killed one of the Hezbollah leaders in Syria. Imad Mughniyeh's death in Damascus, a car bomb assassination of course, brought the spark back in Southern Lebanon. cause the gunb powder was always there. Israel was the first to blame, of course. ''We call on the leadership of the Islamic Resistance to respond totheir treacherous operation with a painful blow to the Zionist entity, The Israeli hand has reached one of the pillars of the resistance and it shouldget a strong response and this is not hard for the mujahideen", one shiite cleric told the Hezbollah militants on Al Manar TV. Syria called the assasination a terrorist act. They avoided saying anything about Israel. The US are happy. Happiest about it. It turns out the guy was the most wanted terrorist, deadliest they say, after Ossama Bin Laden.
Mughniyehwas suspected of the 1983 bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut. 63 people died there. He also was suspected in the truck bombing that year of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, an attack that killed 241 people and preceded the U.S. military withdrawal from Lebanon. He escaped american intelligence by changing his appearance.
Tomorrow they will burry the guy.
Tomorrow they expect thousands of people to come to the shrine of Rafik Hariri, the prime minister who was assassinated in 2005. They still count the days since the assassination - of course, they investigated it, but, of course again, didn't find his killers. What's gonna happen? Well, it might just be a day like any other day. Lots of tension, people not going out for fear of THE SITUATION, but in fact nothing really happening.