Lebanon: Assassination Foreseen · Global Voices
Moussa Bashir

“‘Something big will happen after Ramadan.’ ‘People will start fighting outside of Beirut.’ And the most popular one: ‘Someone will get killed during the presidential elections.’ [snip] Well, it seems that the Lebanese were right to think ‘the situation’ would heat up at the end of September,”  wrote Melissa about how the Lebanese foresaw something as terrible as the latest assassination happening.