Escape from Beirut I've had my share of eventful trips. There was the five hours I spent waiting for permission to enter Palestine, the propeller airplane from Copenhagen to Poland, and the transfer counter I upended in the transit lounge in Dhaka.

But to land in Cairo and hear that the Israeli army just shelled the Beirut airport (for the first time in ten years) from where I had just come, that was something else...  ¶ 4:09 PM 2 comments