The largest and most outlandish estimate of the crowd in Lebanon was given by this Israeli reporter who claimed that the funeral was the biggest ever in history. I mean, I understand that the enthusiasm of Zionists for Gemayyel militia but come on. It was not bigger than 100,000 from what I understand, and even Hariri propaganda is claiming one million. And the funerals of Nasser and Khumayni were much bigger of course. And notice that the western media bias is always revealed in the coverage of mass demonstrations in Lebanon: not only in terms of the quality of the coverage, but also in the keen interest in providing estimates of the crowd. In the "victory rally" by Hizbullah weeks ago, Western media typically avoid giving estimates of crowd. They diligently do that for March 14th demonstrations. And Blanford among others find the the demonstrators more telegenic.