Thanks for the post.
"Incidentally everyone in Lebanon is as pleased as punch today. I drove through the Bekaa Valley this afternoon with a couple of Lebanese friends and they were whooping all the way"
By the way did you drive through the small road going from Rayak - Ra'it - Kousaya - Kfar Zabad, back to the road going from Rayak to Deir Zanoun?
If so, then you would have watched, in the hills east of Kousaya, some T-54 tanks with ADA guns. These do not belong to the Lebanese Army. And they were not air-dropped by any far away nation or the UN for instance. They came lately on the dirt roads of the smugglers from the syrian side of the border, wearing palestinian colors. Nobody asked for their ID's.
They were shown on the local news of the LBC TV news last friday April 22nd. I leave it to your judgement.
"ADA" guns?