What is the situation with people fleeing Lebanon and heading to Syria?
We went to one of the main border crossings about 25 miles west of Damascus and over the course of a few hours, we saw a steady stream of Lebanese cars, trucks, pick-up trucks fleeing the fighting. We were told when we were there that it was actually lighter, in terms of the flow of people, than it had been in previous days. Still officials were saying that over the last 24 hours at least 40,000 people had come across, and over the last week at least 100,000 people had come through that one border crossing — which is between east Lebanon and west Syria — so that’s not including any of the northern border crossings.
