Yesterday 9 young men were killed in Lebanon as they protested power outages in their predominately Shi’a sector of south Beirut. Snipers shot down on them from roof tops as they protested in their own neighborhood. One of the 9 Killed was my close friends cousin, Yousef Mustafa Shukir, who was shot through the leg […]

I just got word from some powerful and connected friends and their families in Lebanon, the U.S. Embassy is contacting Americans in Lebanon who are registered with the embassy and instructing them to leave Lebanon immediately. Something very ugly is about to occur and apparently the U.S. State department has prior knowledge. I want everyone […]

I had a miserable nightmare last night. I had a dream that it was Ashura and tons of Shi’a were round up by Sunni death squads including friends of mine. I saw what was happening so I ran up to the leader of the squad and begged him to let everyone go. He wouldnt listen […]

Was for violence to break out in any form before Lebanon secures the Presidential office. General Francois al Hajj is dead thanks to a roadside bomb and now things are shaky enough to through the entire country out of order. Al Hajj’s is not solely powerful enough to cause civil war by his death, […]

When Saddam was executed on December 30th, were the onlookers cheering “Muqtada, Muqtada” because of their allegence to Muqtada al Sadr or were they cheering because one of the hangmen actually was Muqtada al Sadr?
Unconfirmed rumors based from an unnamed al-Jazeera source and a Pro-Bathist website are claiming that the executioner to the right of […]

My friends father, who controlled his own militia during the Lebanese civil wars, once told me a story about sectarian violence in Lebanon.
He was standing in line at a bakery at about 7 o’clock at night. He was one of the few grown men there, most of the customers were women and children buying for […]