Today in Lebanon…

Today in Baalbek, unknown men shot at an army checkpoint, injuring three soldiers. The last time my family and I journeyed to Baalbek, we saw about 30 plainclothes men with machine guns at one of the checkpoints–but it was during a particularly tense time, as Syria had just bombed the area. Some reports, however, have suggested that today’s incident was related to drug violence–not Syria. In other news today, a child in Lebanon was killed in a violent clash over the situation in Syria…