The Waiting Game

Beirut is in wait-and-see mode today, in light of ">the discovery of the bodies of the two PSP boys. It's not nearly as bad as the riots in January, where people largely stayed in their homes. There are plenty of people out and about, but everyone is waiting to see if the other shoe is going to drop -- if there is going to be retaliation for the murders. The universities are closed, and there are new checkpoints around the city.

Defense Minister Elias Murr said that he knows who did it, and that, "[w]e are chasing them and we hope to arrest them." Well, I'm not sure that they really know who did it -- but odds are that they'll arrest someone soon, regardless. The pressure to do something and defuse the situation is going to outweigh the need for 100% certainty.