Coming Home…

After I got back to Beirut yesterday from an excursion in the mountains, a car bomb detonated at a Lebanese Armed Forces checkpoint on the outskirts of Arsal, killing three soldiers and wounding four others. Like many other recent bombs in Lebanon, the car that was used for the attack was black Kia. While a group called the “Free Sunnis of Baalbek” claimed responsibility for the attack on Twitter, others denounced the attack and promised it wouldn’t hinder the new security plan. At another checkpoint in Arsal, a Syrian woman and child were killed when the driver refused to comply with the orders of the soldiers at the checkpoint.