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Friday, October 21, 2005


Aoun Eliminates His Enemy


Of all the paragraphs in the Mehlis report, which one do you think the tayyar’s website found most important to publish on its first page as Breaking News?

This one:
X: Take it easy on me. Can you appoint a new Government at this time?
Ghazali: Yes we can appoint one. What could be the problem? We can name Botros Harb.

The Name Butros Harb was bold and in red.

Of course, it’s just a coincidence that Harb is Aoun’s biggest competitor for the presidency.
Some subtlety Mr. Aoun, please.

The tayyar have later modified the front page. The piece just lasted for 30 mins. between around 13:00 and 13:40 GMT.