A Syrian yesterday stopped to buy cigarettes in Tripoli. Somebody suspected that he was `Alawite: he was swiftly taken by the armed Salafite groups in the city (regarded as pro-Western March 14 in Western media) and tortured and dragged by a rope around the city before he was rescued by the Lebanese Army. The ruling that led to his torture was vomited by the kooky pro-Saudi clerics that now rule the city. On his chest, they wrote: "I am a `Alawite Shabbih". Not a word from the Human Rights Watch office in Beirut, which doubles as a propaganda office for the Hariri movement. (thanks Wael)
PS I should have a special series under the headline "The other side of your revolution".
