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To: LindyBill who wrote (102498)	2/27/2005 5:48:52 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793845

If Beirut blows up tomorrow, we will have bloggers in the middle of it. Just grand. Much better than a MSM type who flew in with his trenchcoat and is reporting rumors from a hotel. Mixed Signals Caveman in Beirut blissstreetjournal.blogspot.com By Unfrozen Caveman Linguist New TV (and others) echo the report that all demonstrations and protests are banned until further notice, and a curfew will be in effect starting Monday morning. I am not sure when exactly this curfew will begin, or even which parts of the city are affected - this is often the case with such announcements here. Maybe the Interior Ministry's announcement was originally explicit and clear and the television stations just messed up their version of the announcement; getting accurate information about anything around here often requires the ability to read minds as well as to disregard the reams of inaccurate information that many people are so eager to provide. Regardless, nobody seems to care right now; my wife and I just came from Monot Street (most of the restaurants and clubs are open, but they are empty - best time to get a late dinner, by the way) in lower Achrafieh. Instead, everyone seems to have made the last half-kilometer walk from Monot down to Hariri's gravesite, for there are thousands of people there right now. I have no idea how they authorities here are planning on enforcing a curfew in THIS town anyway.

To: LindyBill who wrote (102498)	2/28/2005 6:01:37 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793845

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