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  1. Just two tweets today from @SANA_English on the news that 32 children were massacred in Houla - the same as for the weather. 21 minutes ago via web
  2. RT @lebanesepress Qaouk: Hezbollah will never fight in Syria, job is to protect Lebanon goo.gl/BsC0S about 1 hour ago via web
  3. Meanwhile, a story that will not make the front pages tomorrow: Woman and six children killed in Nato airstrike uk.reuters.com/article/2012/0… about 1 hour ago via web
  4. Syria pictures are awful and shocking, but it would be a crime not to print them. about 1 hour ago via web
  5. Smith's evidence suggests the primary skill of an ambitious spad is to not have an opinion at all. #Leveson 3:56 AM May 25th via web
  6. Smith says the words "I agree" actually mean "Jeremy Hunt agrees". Blames the nature of text messages for the misunderstanding. Ha! #Leveson 2:47 AM May 25th via web
  7. Fascinating to watch Twitter digest the Hunt debacle. Like the disjointed trail of thought in the mind of a genius. 8:55 AM May 24th via Twitter for BlackBerry®
  8. Watching videos from anti-African demonstrations in Israel last night. Shocking, sinister stuff. Being fuelled by right-wing elements in gov 5:32 AM May 24th via web
  9. @patrickgaley I heard they were trying to liberate a collection of baby blue suits from Moustache. 2:35 PM May 23rd via web in reply to patrickgaley
  10. This is the way to do it ---> RT @Slutterhouse: I just threw an egg at an armed twat down the window #Hamra 2:23 PM May 23rd via web
  11. Has the drunk man theory been quashed yet? Or are there several drunk hand-grenade throwing men? 2:01 PM May 23rd via web
  12. @zizastan haha, his. (I'm only joking. He looks adorable) 1:58 PM May 23rd via web in reply to zizastan
  13. yeah, this. RT @OliviaAlabaster that is, I can hear it from my house in Manara, I don't know where the explosion, whatever it was, is 1:57 PM May 23rd via web
  14. Good timing. Got on Skype with @oliviaalabaster just in time to hear an explosion go off in Manara. #Lebanon 1:56 PM May 23rd via web
  15. @zizastan @sam_to_the_t Sam, I hope you are keeping your testicles safe in a jar somewhere. 1:44 PM May 23rd via web in reply to zizastan
  • Name Richard Hall
  • Location Whitechapel
  • Web http://www.indepe...
  • Bio Freelance journalist on The Independent news desk. Formerly Middle East Editor at The Daily Star, Beirut. One-time fox hunt saboteur. r.hall@independent.co.uk
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