I am told that Ilyas Murr (the Lebanese Minister of Defense who first accused Palestinian fundamentalist groups of the assassination attempt on his life, before deciding to accuse the Syrian government, and who threatened last summer that the Lebanese Army will teach Israel a "lesson that it will not forget" IF Israeli troops cross into Lebanon) who is on an official visit in Washington, DC is not allowing any members of his official delegation to accompany him during his high-level meetings. Al-Murr is one of the most corrupt, and most unprincipled political "dynasty" in Lebanon. Michel Murr, his father, brokered the Israeli era in 1982 and funded the Bashir Gemayyel's presidential campaign in that year, before becoming the main broker of the Syrian era in Lebanon.