Demonstrations in Lebanon
Posted by Peter W. Schramm
Another huge anti-Syrian demonstration in Lebanon.
It will be interesting if this largest ever anti-Syria demonstration will be played up in both the MSM and the Arab press. The stimates are 200,000 and way above.
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Actually, this news report says more than 800,000 folks turned out--and that’s probably a low estimate:
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/050314/1/3r8qh.html
To give fuller idea of what this means, the CIA Factbook estimates the total population of Lebanon at about 3.8 million. Imagine 70 million peoplein the USA demonstrating simultaneously, and you have some idea of the scale of this.