The Mehlis report was released to the public a few hours ago. I’m still reading it, but apparently it implicates high ranking Lebanese and Syrian officials, without naming all of them. (UPDATE: ..unless you fiddled with the pdf and got the earlier unedited version, where names were given) Sounds like Lahoud and Assad were in on it. It goes into a lot of detail about the cell phone aspect and the point is made that the investigation should continue. It remains to be seen what the reaction will be.

Last night there were a lot of APCs and soldiers out, especially in Achrafiyeh. Too bad I haven’t done better with my Arabic- one of the local news channels here has a camera trained on the presidential palace.