SSNP in Hamra

I received many emails about what happened in Hamra street in Beirut when thugs attacked leftist protesters who peacefully expressed their sympathy with the victims of Syrian regime repression.  A comrade who was there sent me this:  "as`ad, i was there at the thing on monday. i can say almost certainly that the first group of thugs came out of the SSNP headquarters that is near the embassy, a few minutes later another "wafd" came from the opposite direction.   there might have been one or two SSNP members that were trying to hold them back but so what, should we mnirba7 jmileton? it's fairly obvious that the attack was approved if not coordinated with the baath thugs."