Tuesday, April 05, 2011

US embassy staff visit to Sidon

This did not get any coverage in the US press, for some reason.  Members of the US embassy in Beirut were visiting Sidon, and as they sat to have a meal, a group of Arab nationalist youth gathered around them and started chanting against the US (and some accounts claimed that they pelted them with stones), until they rushed away.  Internal Security Services arrested three young men and now there is a sit-in in Sidon calling for the release of the three.