I interviewed many people in Lebanon during my last trip. Jumblat's people were clearly mad at me, so I did not get to see them. One of them, Jumblat's closest advisor, Wa'il Abu Fa`ur (a member of parliament), talked to my sister. While he said some nice things about me, he told my sister that I said some very critical things about Walid Jumblat. "Those things can't be said about Walid Jumblat" he told my sister. He said that he would call me to set up a meeting. He never called. I interviewed Hasan Nasrallah and Nabih Birri (speaker of parliament), among others. Birri is open and engaging in private, but I could not help miss the irony of a leader of Harakat Al-Mahrumin (Movement of the Deprived) residing in palaces--grand palaces. Nasrallah is easy to talk to--and I have seen him before. He told me that he knows of my criticisms of Hizbullah, and that he does not mind my critical perspective. I asked him about the determinants of the party's policies since the assassination of Hariri. I asked one cabinet minister about his impressions of cabinet meetings: he said that he is astonished at the level of US and French intervention in minute political affairs in Lebanon. He told me that in some cabinet meetings, some ministers simply read statements prepared to them by the US ambassador. He said the cabinet meetings are not as they seem to appear form media coverage. I spoke to a Lebanese politician investigated by Mehlis team: they clearly are amateurish and incompetent, he observed. Their level of knowledge of Lebanese affairs is laughable. One expert on the Middle East brought by the Mehlis team from Europe later apologized for his role to that person, according to that person. Do you know that the Mehlis team was flying around in Hariri's private jet? Does that not clash with UN rules, assuming that there are rules under Annan. I wanted to know about the meeting a few months ago between Ahmad Jibril and mini-Hariri. So I talked to Anwar Raja: the leader of the PFLP-GC in Lebanon. He told me that Ahmad Jibril told mini-Hariri that he should realize that it was better for his father to die the way he died. That he now is a world-famous "martyr" while nobody would have known of him had he died a natural death. Mini-Hariri told him: "A Saudi prince told me the same thing." Raja was in the meeting. He also told me of the last meeting between PFLP-GC delegation and Jumblat, and PFLP-GC was a major supporter of Jumblat, per orders from Syria, I am sure, as PFLP-GC has always implemented Syria's orders. I told Raja that there is a perception that his organization is a tool of Syria, but that the perception is not inaccurate. I asked him to name one policy with which his group was in disagreement with Syria. He mentioned the War of the Camp. So Raja delivered a letter from Jibril to Jumblat, reminding him of the "good old days." But Jumblat was different and stiff, and the delegation knew that this would be the last meeting with Jumblat. It was. I also interviewed a Lebanese baby: I found him to be more informed than mini-Hariri.