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The lebanese had to do their homework much earlier. They did not. They let Absi do whatever he wanted since October 2006 when he began his overt activities: press conferences, military training, urban expansion in Tripoli 10 miles away, and finally the bombing of the 2 buses on Feb 13 whose details were uncovered one month later, but no measures had been taken until a bank “robbery” of their monthly payments ($127,000) from Bankmed. As simple as that. A similar “Winograd” lebanese commision should investigate the details of the complacency inside the Lebanese administration.
The Lebanese Army was not supposed to react as violently as it did. A mixt commission was supposed to be constituted instead and a series of cease-fires and breakings of cease-fires were supposed to take place as all good lebanese got used to during their wars with the palestinians and the syrians. But the Fatah Al Islam crime of beheading 27 army soldiers , many of them were on leave, early Sunday May 20 was enormous and dificult to get around.