Mayor: “We asked for patrols on this street”

byHabib Battah
May 28, 2013

The mayor of the town from which rockets were fired at Beirut on Sunday said he had specifically asked for more security patrols on the street, especially at night when “anything can happen on that road.”

You can watch him at 17:00:

OTV’s coverage referred to the rocket attack on a densely populated suburb as “a message” rather than an act of terrorism.

Habib Battah

Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.