"Fighting Ebbs in Lebanon"

That is the headline on the local news feed we get, and we hope it is true. K heard gunfire near her workplace today for about an hour. But there are no reports of major fighting anywhere in the country. The army seems to be slowly taking over. Tom witnesssed them entering our area, and seeing the Syrian Socialist members who had claimed our neighborhood scatter like rats into the shadows... And an Arab League delegation is scheduled to arrive tomorrow--presumably they are clearing the roadblocks from the airport for the occasion.

Here is more on the power of spin, a remarkable story that apparently appeared in the Syrian press:

"The Americans launched a pre-emptive strike against opposition nationalist forces, starting with the [Hizbollah] resistance, and attempted a Washington-planned coup but were taken aback by the opposition, which restored order in Lebanon."

It goes on to say: "The recent events in Lebanon showed that the coup carried out by the Americans and their men in Lebanon backfired."

Interesting, given the fact that we didn't see any American soldiers in Lebanon and the fact that it was Hizbollah who started the fighting.