Michael Ubaldi, March 17, 2005.

It's begun:
A jubilant crowd gathered on Wednesday night near the seafront Syrian intelligence headquarters, now guarded by the Lebanese army, where they danced, chanted and sang patriotic songs.
...In Akkar, further north, police said Lebanese army units had torn down two bronze statutes of Assad, the current Syrian leader, and his father, former president Hafez al-Assad. Several huge public portraits of the Assads were earlier this week hauled down in Beirut.
"The outlaw dire took mortal hurt; a mighty wound showed on his shoulder, and sinews cracked, and the bone-frame burst." The Syrian monster leaves now only to die. So done, like all free men, by the Lebanese.