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Lebanon: Assassination Foreseen

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Lebanon, Ideas, Politics, War & Conflict

“‘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 [1] about how the Lebanese foresaw something as terrible as the latest assassination happening.