Israeli media is now reporting that Two Syrian commando battalions accompanied by reconnaissance and engineering corps units have crossed into Lebanon and taken up positions in seven villages, most of them Allawite Muslim, outside Tripoli since September 13, 2008. They are the vanguard of a large armored force poised on the border. Damascus has signaled to Washington and Paris: Don’t interfere.
It is the largest Syrian force to invade Lebanon since Damascus was forced to end its occupation of the country in May 2005, three months after former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated.

Christian Lebanon is in mourning following the killing of two of Franjieh's and Jaajaa's thugs. The mourning is not for the dead but for the misery that these killings may bring about. . .

A rapprochement is underway between Majority Tycoon Saad Hariri and Minority Supreme Ayatollah Hezbolla Chieftain Hassan Nasroulla.

The Lebanese Government is set to privatize the Two Mobile Phone companies.

The Government also decided to remove all political banners and photos from the streets of the Capital . . . of course outside Hezbolla Land in the southern suburbs.

10 Russian warships have docked in Syrian ports.